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Famed as a cultural melting pot where Greek and Egyptian, Pagan, Christian and Jew all dwelled alongside each other, Alexandria's history in Late Antiquity was no less vibrant and often explosively violent. This mostly narrative account traces the fortunes of the city and its internal and external conflicts from the aggressive Christianisation of the City, the doctrinal split between the Coptic and Greek churches and the violence it unleashed, and successive Persian, Byzantine and finally Arab conquests. Alongside this gripping series of events Mojsov also explores the changing fabric of the town, and in particular its religious architecture.