Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities

by Edward J. Watts

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This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupted in Alexandria in 486 when a group of students attacked a Christian adolescent ...more

Hardcover, 290 pages

Published May 4th 2010 by University of California Press

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