Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict

"A valuable and much needed contribution to the study of Alexandria and late antiquity" which presents "a vivid and interesting portrait" (Classical Review).
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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 places these...