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Geophysical phenomena and the Alexandrian littoral
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ISBN: 1789692350 9781789692358 1789692342 9781789692341 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,

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This book presents the geomorphology and recent geoarchaeological history of Alexandria which has been repeatedly struck by natural disasters. The Coastal area offers archaeological evidence (burial sites, quarry activities and ancient building remnants), as well as geomorphological features, all revealing a complex evolution of the coastal zone.


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The Golden Age of Alexandria
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ISBN: 0575013508 9780575013506 Year: 1971 Publisher: London Gollancz

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Early Christianity in Alexandria : from its beginnings to the late second century
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ISBN: 9781009449571 1009449575 1009449540 9781009449557 9781009449526 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,

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Alexandria was the epicenter of Hellenic learning in the ancient Mediterranean world, yet little is known about how Christianity arrived and developed in the city during the late first and early second century CE. In this volume, M. David Litwa employs underused data from the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings to open up new vistas on the creative theologians who invented Christianities in Alexandria prior to Origen and the catechetical school of the third century. With clarity and precision, he traces the surprising theological continuities that connect Philo and later figures, including Basilides, Carpocrates, Prodicus, and Julius Cassianus, among others. Litwa demonstrates how the earliest followers of Jesus navigated Jewish theology and tradition, while simultaneously rejecting many Jewish customs and identity markers before and after the Diaspora Revolt. His book shows how Christianity in Alexandria developed distinctive traits and seeded the world with ideas that still resonate today.


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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez : a biography
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ISBN: 9798400609183 9798216044444 1440875383 9781440875380 9781440875373 1440875375 Year: 2020 Publisher: Westport, CT : New York : Greenwood, Bloomsbury Publishing (US),

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Since mid-2018, when she registered one of the biggest primary election upsets in the nation, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has emerged as one of the most influential voices of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Few politicians have experienced a rise as meteoric as the one that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (or AOC, as she is commonly known) has experienced since her June 2018 Democratic primary upset victory over a powerful, longtime incumbent and her subsequent triumph in the November 2018 midterms. This book examines how the telegenic lawmaker-a life-long New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent-engineered that startling victory, why her life story and ideas made her such a focus of national attention, how she has used Twitter and other social media to amplify her calls for economic justice and civil rights equality, and why, since she took office in January 2019, she has come to be regarded as one of the most consequential and influential lawmakers in Congress. It will also help readers understand AOC's most deeply held political convictions, policymaking priorities, and personal principles.

Alexandria in late antiquity : topography and social conflict
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ISBN: 080185377X 9780801853777 Year: 1997 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologiansamong them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in 'Alexandria in Late Antiquity', Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures within the physical and social context of Alexandria's bustling urban milieu. Because of its clear demarcation of communal boundaries, Alexandria provides the modern historian with an ideal opportunity to probe the multicultural makeup of an ancient urban unit. 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. Organizing his discussion around the city's religious and ethnic blocs--Jews, pagans, and Christians--he details the fiercely competitive nature of Alexandrian social dynamics. In contrast to recent scholarship, which cites Alexandria as a model for peaceful coexistence within a culturally diverse community, Haas finds that the diverse groups' struggles for social dominance and cultural hegemony often resulted in violence and bloodshed--a volatile situation frequently exacerbated by imperial intervention on one side or the other. Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration--a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.


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Trading conflicts : Venetian merchants and Mamluk officials in Late Medieval Alexandria
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ISSN: 09285520 ISBN: 9789004221994 9789004222007 9004221999 9786613470706 1283470705 9004222006 9781283470704 6613470708 Year: 2012 Volume: 93 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Analysing different conflicts in Late Medieval Alexandria, this book offers new insights into the micro-mechanics of Venetian life and trade in Egypt and recalibrates the narrative of the strictly regulated and often violent contacts between East and West. This thorough microanalysis, based on the private archive of a Venetian merchant and consul in Alexandria read in conjunction with other Venetian and Mamluk sources, provides a differentiated image of conflict patterns cutting across the cultural divide. It transforms our image of Alexandria as a city at the intersection of Orient and Occident into that of a microcosm in its own right where disputes did not always fall neatly along cultural divides and conflicts were traded as much as trade created conflicts.

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Italian studies on Philo of Alexandria
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ISBN: 0391041894 9786610463886 1423714431 1280463880 9047400070 9781423714439 9789047400073 9780391041899 Year: 2003 Publisher: Boston : Brill Academic Publishers,

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A collection of essays offering an overview of the main trends of Italian research on Philo of Alexandria. The essays are approached from various perspectives, including historical, linguistic, philological and philosophical, thus reflecting the complexity and implications of Philo's thought.


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Levant
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ISBN: 1283150654 9786613150653 0300176228 9780300176223 9781283150651 9780300172645 0300172648 6613150657 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Histoire de l'analyse diophantienne classique
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ISBN: 3110337886 9783110337884 3110336855 9783110336856 9781306205788 1306205786 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin

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This is the first study of the history of Diophantine analysis and the theory of numbers from Ab? K?mil to Fermat (9th-17th century). It thus offers an elaborate and detailed overview on a fundamental chapter on classical mathematical thought and its relation to algebra and Diophantus' Arithmetica.


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Christianity and monasticism in Alexandria and the Egyptian deserts
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ISBN: 1649030223 1649030215 9781649030214 9781649030221 9774169611 9789774169618 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cairo New York

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