Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt

The Case of the Acta Alexandrinorum

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ID19920157
AuthorsAndrew Harker (corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-04-17
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLoyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511482793
OpenAlexW4253451366
Open LibraryOL10438526M
ISBN9780511482793
GOOGLE_BOOK_ID1OEMmWlI0S8C
LanguageEN
Citations received32

The Acta Alexandrinorum are a fascinating collection of texts, dealing with relations between the Alexandrians and the Roman emperors in the first century AD. This was a turbulent time in the life of the capital city of the new province of Egypt, not least because of tensions between the Greek and Jewish sections of the population. Dr Harker's was the first in-depth study of these texts since their first edition half a century ago, and it examines them in the context of other similar contemporary literary forms, both from Roman Egypt and the wider Roman Empire. This study of the Acta Alexandrinorum, which was genuinely popular in Roman Egypt, offers a more complex perspective on provincial mentalities towards imperial Rome than that offered in the mainstream elite literature. It will be of interest to classicists and ancient historians, but also to those interested in Jewish and New Testament studies

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Capital (architecture) · Context (archaeology) · Elite · Judaism · Loyalty · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Roman Empire · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Rome · Sources

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