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| Other authors / contributors: | Bilde, Per.
Jensen, Minna Skafte.
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| ISBN: | 9788779347458
8779347452
9788779344914
8779344917
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| Notes: | ReferencesCHAPTER 8. Religious Conflict in Late Antique Alexandria: Christian Responses to "Pagan" Statues in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE; 1. Introduction; 2. Early Christians and Pagan Statues; 3. The Destruction of the Serapeum and its Statuary; 4. Further Christian Responses to Pagan Statues in Alexandria; 5. Responses to Pagan Statues in Alexandria's Hinterland; 6. Conclusion; References; List of Contributors.
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| Summary: | Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination of the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world and so did Philo, Josephus and Clement. In various fashions, the four papers of Part I o.
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| Other form: | Print version: Hinge, George. Alexandria : A Cultural and Religious Melting Pot. Santa Barbara : Aarhus University Press, ©2010 9788779344914
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