Athanasius of Alexandria in the Coptic memory

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Coptic literature presents the life of Athanasius of Alexandria in a different way compared to what his contemporaneous historians narrates about him.

Some features of his personality was ignored, such as being a famous theologian and writer, and some different features were added, such as being a maker of marvels.

Was this change intended? Was this random? Can we find reasons for this reformatting of the personality of Athanasius as it is presented in Coptic literary texts? The most recent conceptions of memory studies were applied -as a proper new methodology- on several Coptic pseudo-Athanasius texts, in order to find answers to these questions.

This article presents a model for those who want to study historic figure via literary texts.