Alexandria : The Site and the History

by: Steen, G.L. El-Din, M.S. Mokhtar, G. El-Abbadi, M. Ramadan, A.

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Alexandria : the site & the history

Authors:Mursi Saad El Din, Gareth L. Steen (Editor), Araldo De Luca (Photographer)

Alexandria. Bride of Cities. Mistress of the Sea. Fabled city of Alexander the Great. In this remarkable volume, expert scholars and a master photographer capture a lasting impression of the capital and seaport founded by Alexander on Egypt's Mediterranean shore three centuries before the birth of Christ. Morsi Saad El-Din's essay is an homage to Alexandria as well as an overview of the city and the book. He provides pithy, colloquial observations and a wealth of little-known facts and anecdotes, and he undertakes to provide an answer to the elusive whereabouts of Alexander's tomb. Gamal Mokhtar traces the origins of relations between Egypt and Greece that provide the context for Alexander's founding of his immortal city. He peels back little-known layers of cultural, historical, political and economic circumstance from which the city evolved.

126 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 31 cm

Contents:
Introduction / Morsi Saad El-Din
Pre-Alexandria : keys to the rise of an immortal city / Gamal Mokhtar
Alexandria : thousand-year capital of Egypt ; The Great Library and Mouseion : intellectual center of the world / Mostafa El-Abbadi
Alexandria : French expedition to the modern age / Abdel/Azim Ramadan

Subjects:
Alexandria
Alexandria (Egypt) History
Alexandrie (Égypte) Antiquités
Alexandrie (Égypte) Histoire
Archäologie
Egypt
Egypt Alexandria
Essais
Essay
Essays
History
Stadt
essays
pictorial works (form)
prehistory
urban history

Alexandria : The Site and the History

by: Steen, G.L. El-Din, M.S. Mokhtar, G. El-Abbadi, M. Ramadan, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780814779866 / 978-0-8147-7986-6
• ISBN-03: 0814779867 / 0-8147-7986-7
• New York University Press, New York, 1993

Price: 65,00 EURO

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