Beyond Conflicts: Cultural and Religious Cohabitations in Alexandria and Egypt Between the 1st and the 6th Century Ce

ISBN-13: 9783161551444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 460 str.

Luca Arcari

Opis

It cannot be doubted that there were various ways of interaction between different groups in Graeco-Roman Egypt, as a number of more or less recent regional studies have further reinforced. And as is well-known, Egypt emerges as a sort of exception in the study of ancient cultures and religions, providing scholars with the possibility of relying on a great number and variety of documents. Exploring interactively the diversity of documentary material is the main aim of this volume. In socio-cultural terms, such an analysis corroborates the image of Egypt as a pervasive cultural system where for many centuries different elites coagulated themselves around a number of standard modalities to produce -cultural- and -religious- micro-systems. This shows that people, even when different languages and textual practices survive, respond to specific modalities of cohabitation under the umbrella of this hegemonic cultural -field.-

O autorze

Born 1977; 2005 PhD in Ancient History; 2007-12 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the "Michele Pellegrino" Foundation (University of Turin); currently Professor of History of Ancient Christianity and History of Religions at the University of Naples Federico II.