1st Edition
Alexandria of Egypt, The Divine Cosmopolis Religion, Urban Topography, and Material Culture in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods
INTRODUCTION; 1. Alexandria and the Archaeology of the Divine; 2. Historical setting; 3. Cityscape, Sacred Topography, and Material Evidence; PART I. THE DIVINE COSMOPOLIS UNDER THE PTOLEMAIC AEGIS: From Polis to Necropolis; 1. Religious Life in Ptolemaic Alexandria; 2. Ptolemaic Ruler Cult and Sacred Kingship; 3. Death, Memory, and Divine Interrelations in the Ptolemaic Necropolis; PART II. THE DIVINE COSMOPOLIS UNDER ROMAN IMPERIUM: Transformation and Persistence from Life to Afterlife; 4. Alexandria's Sacred Landscape: Transition to Roman Imperial Reality; 5. Myriad Options for an ‘Eudaimonic’ Life in Roman Alexandria; 6. The Roman Necropolis of Alexandria under the shared rule of Osiris and Hades; CONCLUSIONS; EPILOGUE. Final Sacred Destination: The Monastery of Saint Savvas the Sanctified – Previously, the Mithraeum.
Biography
Kyriakos Savvopoulos is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford, specialising in the archaeology and history of Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria, with particular focus on Greco-Egyptian interaction in the city and its necropolis
