Benjamin (Hrsg.) Schliesser

Alexandria

ISBN: 978-3-16-159892-0
EAN: 9783161598920
Produktnummer: 34815987
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck GmbH &amp; Co. K
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 600 S.
Masse: H15.5 cm x B23.2 cm

Hub of the Hellenistic World

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Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious kaleidoscope. Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria became a place where Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities all emerged, coexisted, influenced, and rivaled each other. In order to meet the diversity of Alexandria's urban life and to do justice to the variety of literary and non-literary documents that bear witness to this,… Mehr