Riot in Alexandria

Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities

By:

Edward J. Watts

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Transformation of the Classical Heritage

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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 Biography:

Edward J. Watts, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Indiana University, is the author of City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria, winner of the Outstanding Publication Award from the Classical Association of the Midwest and South.

Release date NZ

February 23rd, 2017

Author

Edward J. Watts

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

5 b-w photographs, 1 map

Pages

312

Series

Transformation of the Classical Heritage

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780520294868

Product ID

26392777

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