‘Colony’ and ‘metropolis’ in Philo. Examples of Mimicry and Hybridity in Philo’s writing back from the Empire?
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21 avril 2016
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Torrey Seland, « ‘Colony’ and ‘metropolis’ in Philo. Examples of Mimicry and Hybridity in Philo’s writing back from the Empire? », Études platoniciennes, ID : 10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.621
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Philo is often read as one who finds his position in general quite well situated in the diaspora, and as one who exhibits a very positive attitude towards the Roman Empire. At the same time, we also know that the Jewish Diaspora communities of Alexandria of his time underwent severe social troubles, and for some time in the late thirties C.E. even suffered from an anti-Jewish pogrom in the city. Two works of Philo in particular deal with these events: the Legatio ad Gaium (Leg.) and the In Fl...