William V. Harris is Professor of History at Columbia University.
Giovanni Ruffini is a graduate student in ancient history at Columbia University and is writing his doctoral dissertation on the social networks of late-antique Oxyrhynchos and Aphrodito.

This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.