Riot In Alexandria

Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520294868

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Riot in Alexandria by Edward J. Watts Pdf

This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupted in Alexandria in 486 when a group of students attacked a Christian adolescent who had publicly insulted the students' teachers. Pagan students, Christians affiliated with a local monastery, and the Alexandrian ecclesiastical leaders all cast the incident in a different light, and each group tried with that interpretation to influence subsequent events. Watts, drawing on Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac sources, shows how historical traditions and notions of a shared past shaped the interactions and behavior of these high-profile communities. Connecting oral and written texts to the personal relationships that gave them meaning and to the actions that gave them form, Riot in Alexandria draws new attention to the understudied social and cultural history of the later fifth-century Roman world and at the same time opens a new window on late antique intellectual life.

Author : Sandra Gambetti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047441915

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The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews. A Historical Reconstruction by Sandra Gambetti Pdf

An imperial adjudication against the Jews prompted the riots of 38 CE in Alexandria. The Roman prefect and the Alexandrian citizenry acted within their institutional roles to the effect that most of the Jews lost their legal residence for good.

Author : Duval A. Edwards
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Military intelligence
ISBN : 9781587369452

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Jungle and Other Tales by Duval A. Edwards Pdf

Duval A. Edwards was a member of U. S. Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) from 1941 to 1945. This elite organization had many responsibilities, including ensuring the personal security of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. CIC Special Agents were stationed near U.S. troops in strategic locations all over the world where they serviced the troops by conducting counterintelligence activities during World War II. Edwards founded "The CIC Reporter" magazine (later known as the "Golden Sphinx"), serving as editor-in-chief for a total of nine years. "Jungle and Other Tales" is a collection of articles printed in the publication by CIC agents, describing counterintelligence operations during World War II and the Cold War.

Author : Great Britain. Army. Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Court of Enquiry on the Alexandria Riots, May 1921
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
ISBN : UCLA:31158006561087

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Minutes of Proceedings and Report of the Military Court of Enquiry Into the Alexandria Riots, May 1921 by Great Britain. Army. Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Court of Enquiry on the Alexandria Riots, May 1921 Pdf

Author : Mario Baghos,Doru Costache,Philip Kariatlis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443881227

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Alexandrian Legacy by Mario Baghos,Doru Costache,Philip Kariatlis Pdf

This volume brings together contributions exploring a range of aspects of the Alexandrian patristic tradition from the second half of the second century to the first half of the fifth century, a tradition whose complex and significant legacy is at times misunderstood and, in some quarters, wholly neglected. With contributions by both Australian and international scholars, the fourteen chapters here highlight that, behind the complexity of this tradition, one finds a vibrant Christian spirit – granted, one that has successfully put on the flesh of Hellenistic culture – and a consistent striving towards the reformation and transformation of the human being according to the gospel. Furthermore, this volume contributes a nuanced voice to the scholarly choir which already hums a new song about Christian Alexandria and its representatives. Indeed, these contributions are interdisciplinary in approach, combining methods pertaining to the fields of historiography, theology and philosophy, pastoral care, hermeneutics, hagiography, and spirituality. By way of this complex approach, this book brings together areas which currently evolve in separate scholarly universes, which is wholly befitting to the complexities entailed by the ever-challenging Alexandrian legacy.

Author : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494908

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Religious Violence in the Ancient World by Jitse H. F. Dijkstra,Christian R. Raschle Pdf

A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.

Author : Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Egypt
ISBN : NWU:35556012040036

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Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Pdf

Author : Michael Chase
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350089235

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Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Five Terms by Michael Chase Pdf

One of his six introductions to philosophy, widely used by students in Alexandria, Ammonius' lecture on Porphyry was recorded in writing by his students in the commentary translated here. Along with five other types of introductions (three of which are translated in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle volume Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic) it made Greek philosophy more accessible to other cultures. These introductions became standard in Ammonius' school and included a popular set of five or more definitions of philosophy, some of them drawn from commentaries on quite different works. Ammonius' lecture expounded the most celebrated and discussed previous introduction written by Porphyry 200 years earlier, which was devoted to five main technical terms of Aristotle's logic. Ammonius was sympathetic to Porphyry because they both sought to harmonise the views of Plato and Aristotle with each other, arguing in different ways that the two philosophers did not disagree about the nature of universals. Porphyry's introduction was a hugely influential work for centuries after its composition, and this commentary by Ammonius served to maintain its position at the centre of later schools of philosophy. This English translation of Ammonius' work is the latest volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.

Author : J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : 0521215927

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The Cambridge History of Africa by J. D. Fage,Roland Anthony Oliver Pdf

After the prehistory of Volume I, Volume II deals with the beginnings of history from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050.

Author : Abraham Malamat
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0674397312

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A History of the Jewish People by Abraham Malamat Pdf

First published in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1969. First English translation by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1976.

Author : Justin Pollard,Howard Reid
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0143112511

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The Rise and Fall of Alexandria by Justin Pollard,Howard Reid Pdf

A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. In this compulsively readable narrative, Justin Pollard and Howard Reid bring one of history's most fascinating and prolific cities to life, creating a treasure trove of our intellectual and cultural origins. Famous for its lighthouse, its library-the greatest in antiquity-and its fertile intellectual and spiritual life--it was here that Christianity and Islam came to prominence as world religions--Alexandria now takes its rightful place alongside Greece and Rome as a titan of the ancient world. Sparkling with fresh insights on science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, eye- opening delight.

Author : William V. Harris,Giovanni Ruffini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047406389

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Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece by William V. Harris,Giovanni Ruffini Pdf

This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.

Author : Juan Ricardo Cole
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9774245180

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Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East by Juan Ricardo Cole Pdf

In this stimulating study, Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egypt's government and the country's influential European community had been locked in a struggle with the nationalist supporters of General Ahmad 'Urabi. Although most Western observers still see the 'Urabi movement as a 'revolt' of junior military officers with only limited support among the Egyptian people, Cole maintains that it was a full-scale revolution with a broad social base. While arguing this fresh point of view, he also proposes a theory of revolution against informal or neocolonial empires, drawing parallels between Egypt in 1882, the early twentieth-century Boxer Rebellion in China, and the Islamic Revolution in modern Iran. In a thorough examination of the changing Egyptian political culture from 1858 through the 'Urabi episode, Cole shows how various social strata--urban guilds, the intelligentsia, and village notables--became 'revolutionary.' Addressing issues raised by such scholars as Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol, his book combines four complementary approaches: social structure and its socioeconomic context, organization, ideology, and the ways in which unexpected conjunctures of events help drive a revolution. "The resulting account of the origins of the 1881-82 revolution is original and persuasive. The book will make a significant contribution to the comparative study of social revolution, in particular by explaining how neocolonial revolutions differ from the kinds of revolution previous theorists have studied." --Timothy P. Mitchell, New York University

Author : Edward J. Watts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520931807

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City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria by Edward J. Watts Pdf

This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural legacy and Christianity. While previous scholarship has seen Christian reactions to pagan educational culture as the product of an empire-wide process of development, Edward J. Watts crafts two narratives that reveal how differently education was shaped by the local power structures and urban contexts of each city. Touching on the careers of Herodes Atticus, Proclus, Damascius, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, Hypatia, and Olympiodorus; and events including the Herulian sack of Athens, the closing of the Athenian Neoplatonic school under Justinian, the rise of Arian Christianity, and the sack of the Serapeum, he shows that by the sixth century, Athens and Alexandria had two distinct, locally determined, approaches to pagan teaching that had their roots in the unique historical relationships between city and school.

Author : Christopher Haas
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801885418

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Alexandria in Late Antiquity by Christopher Haas Pdf

Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians—among them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in Alexandria in Late Antiquity, Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu. Because of its clear demarcation of communal boundaries, Alexandria provides the modern historian with an ideal opportunity to probe the multicultural makeup of an ancient urban unit. Haas explores the broad avenues and back alleys of Alexandria's neighborhoods, its suburbs and waterfront, and aspects of material culture that underlay Alexandrian social and intellectual life. Organizing his discussion around the city's religious and ethnic blocs—Jews, pagans, and Christians—he details the fiercely competitive nature of Alexandrian social dynamics. In contrast to recent scholarship, which cites Alexandria as a model for peaceful coexistence within a culturally diverse community, Haas finds that the diverse groups' struggles for social dominance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed—a volatile situation frequently exacerbated by imperial intervention on one side or the other. Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration—a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.