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Contents List of Illustrations xv Acknowledgments xvii One Introduction 5 Two The Urban Setting 19 "The Most Glorious City of the Alexandrians" 21 Civitas Opulema 33 Three The Social World 45 The Social Hierarchy 50 Civic Institutions: Windows on Alexandrian Society Administration and Coercion 69 Topography and Society: The Via Canopica 81 Four The Jewish Community 91 Tracing an Elusive Presence 92 Philo's World 94 The Great Divide: The Jewish Revolt of 115117 A Tenuous Recovery 103 The FourthCentury Community 109 The Contours of JewishChristian Conflict 121 61 99 xi Contents Five The Pagan Community 128 Problems of Definition 130 Urban Topography and Late Antique Paganism 138 The Sociology of Paganism in Late Antique Alexandna 152 The Downfall of Serapis 159 The Pagans of FifthCentury Alexandria 169 Six The Christian Community: The Interior Landscape and the Civic Landscape 173 Obstacles to Understanding 1 7 5 Modes of Conversion 181 The Christians of House D 189 The Christianization of Public Space 206 Seven The Inner Life of the Christian Community: Clergy and People 215 The "Seven Eyes of God" 216 Laos Theou 227 Eight Community and Factionalism in the Christian Community 245 "Radiant and Inexpressible Power" 247 The Desert and the City: Monastic Opposition to Episcopal Authority 258 The Contours of Schism: The Arians of Alexandna 268 Nine Intercommunal Conflict during Late Antiquity 2 7 8 The Alexandrian Riots of 356 and George of Cappadocia 280 Cyril and His Opponents, 412415 295 Ecclesiastical Stasis and the Marginalization of the Pagans in the 480s 316 Ten Conclusions 331 Eleven Epilogue: From Roman Alexandria to Islamic allskandartyyah 337 xii [35.169.107.177] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:03 GMT) Contents Appendix Chronological Table of Emperors, Prefects, and Patriarchs: Fourth and Fifth Centuries 353 List of Abbreviations 355 Notes 359 Index 483 xiii This page intentionally left blank ...