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 who had publicly
insulted the students' teachers. Pagan students, Christians
affiliated with a local monastery, and the Alexandrian
ecclesiastical leaders all cast the incident in a different light,
and each group tried with that interpretation to influence
subsequent events. Watts, drawing on Greek, Latin, Coptic, and
Syriac sources, shows how historical traditions and notions of a
shared past shaped the interactions and behavior of these
high-profile communities. Connecting oral and written texts to the
personal relationships that gave them meaning and to the actions
that gave them form, Riot in Alexandria draws new attention to the
understudied social and cultural history of the later fifth-century
Roman world and at the same time opens a new window on late antique
intellectual life.
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