Topics/Themes:
• Knowledge, learning, and the memory of the classical age (case study Biblioteca Alexandria)
• Egyptian Cosmopolitanism
• The artifact of the city
Readings:
• Haas, C. (1997). Alexandria in late antiquity : topography and social conflict. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press. (1-68, 337-351)
• Stille, A. (2000). Resurrecting Alexandria: Can the rebuilding of the Great Library also save the city? New Yorker: 90-99.
• Casson, L. (2001). The Library of Alexandria (ch.3) in Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale UP
• Finneran, N. (2005). Alexandria : a city & myth. Stroud, Gloucestershire, Tempus Pub. (Ch. 3 “Christianity and Cosmopolitanism in Late Antique Alexandria”)
• Haas, C. (2001) Alexandria and the Mareotis Region. In Urban centers and rural contexts in late antiquity. T.S. Burns and J.W. Eadie, eds. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
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