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For one rich man who died in the mid-sixth century, we have an inventory of his household property taken before it was knocked down...

Clothing varied by climate. The Roman toga was long gone except as a form of fancy dress for a very few. Tunic and cloak...

We have a good idea what Cosmas was attacking—that is, what drove him to say such ridiculous things. The leading philosopher in Alexandria was...

The Alexandria that Cosmas and Philoponos knew as a home of mer¬chants, philosophers, monks, and more had been a place of civilization, contention, and shortsightedness...

He, “just a Christian,” as he described himself, was shocked by the existence of “false Christians” who did not understand how the world isconstructed,...