ancient city of Alexandria

An Alexandria Quartet:

Callimachus, Philo, Origen and Cavafy

We will examine through the work of four representative Alexandrians - the Hellenistic poet and scholar of the Library of Alexandria, Callimachus; the Jewish Platonist philosopher Philo; the Platonizing Christian philosopher Origen; and the modern poet Constantine Cavafy - what might be considered an ‘Alexandrian’ way of approaching the world, that is to say, allusive, multi-level, and (in the case of the poets, at least) ironic