Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict

by Christopher Haas

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801885418
• ISBN13: 9780801885419
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher