Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities Volume 46 (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. The Anatomy of a Riot

Part 1. Historical Discourse in Intellectual Communities

2. Personal Legacy and Scholastic Identity
Internal Historical Discourse and Its Transmission: The Example of Eunapius
Defending Communal Historical Discourse: Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus

3. Past, Present, and Future in Late Neoplatonic Historical Discourse
The Life of Isidore and its Sources
Eating, Drinking, and Learning Neoplatonic History
Oral Tradition and Scholastic Identity in the Alexandrian Schools of the 480s
Paralius’s Beating within its Scholastic Context
Fifth-Century Christian Violence in Neoplatonic Communal Memory
Teaching Ethics after the Riot

Part 2. The Past Within and Outside Late Antique Monasteries

4. History and the Shape of Monastic Communities
The Koinonia
The Historia Monachorum and Visitors’ Exposure to Ascetic Oral Traditions
Social Relations and the Power of the Master: Barsanuphius and John

5. Anti-Chalcedonian Ascetics and their Student Associates
The Limits of Ascetic Influence
Finding the Ascetic and Intellectual Balance
The Ascetic and Sophistic Melange of Zacharias Scholasticus
A Student Riot and its Commemoration: The “Life of Paralius”

Part 3. Defining the Alexandrian Bishop

6. Creating the Legend of the Alexandrian Bishop
Mechanisms of Episcopal Power
Athanasius and the Politics of Self-Definition
Athanasius’s Restoration and Redefinition
The Athanasian Historical Legacy

7. Theophilus and Cyril: The Alexandrian Bishop Triumphant
Theophilus and the Historical Character of Athanasius
The Legacy of Theophilus

8. Peter Mongus Struggles with the Past
Chalcedon and the Redefinition of the Alexandrian Bishop
Peter Mongus and Resistance in an Age of Compromise
Peter Mongus and the Beating of Paralius
A Riot’s Aftermath

9. Conclusion

Appendix 1. Dating the Riot
Appendix 2. How Much Should We Trust Zacharias Scholasticus?
Bibliography
Index

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