Dorothy I. Sly

Philo's Alexandria (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First-century Alexandria vied with Rome to be the greatest city of the Roman empire. More than half a million people lived in its cosmopolitan four square miles. It was a major centre for international trade and shipping. Little remains of Alexandria's golden age. Few papyrus records of the city survive. Archaeologists' attempts to reveal its past have been frustrated by years of subsidence, earthquakes and continuous demolition and rebuilding. Our main guide to the city is Philo, an Alexandrian Jew, who, sometimes inadvertantly, incorporated information about his home city into his copious religious writings. In this compelling new study, Dorothy I. Sly searches through Philo's treatises for information about Alexandria. By recognising his shortcomings and prejudices, and questioning his judgements, she builds up an authentic picture of life in the first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134681174
• Artikelnr.: 40464702

Autorenporträt

Dorothy I.Sly is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University,Ontario.She is the author of Philo's Perception of Women(1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Full Contents Preface Chapter 1 `A Man Emminent on All Accounts' Chapter 2
`Founded to Satisfy the Soaring Ambition of some King' Chapter 3 `Hope of
Safety to the Voyager' Chapter 4 The `Magnanimity' of Ptolemy II
Philadephus Chapter 5 `Amours and Adulteries and the Deceits of Women'
Chapter 6 `In the Midst of the Marketplace' Chapter 7 `Wholesale
Deprivation of All that is Noble' Chapter 8 `Schools of Prudence and
Courage and Temperance and Justice' Chapter 9 `An Art of Healing that
Treats the Soul' Chapter 10 `Superintendence in Sickness and Health'
Chapter 11 `In a City Not Their Own' Bibliography