Format:
1 Online-Ressource (432 pages)
ISBN:
9781351959605
Series Statement:
Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London v.5
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Translation, transliteration, and acknowledgements -- Preface -- Editors' introduction -- 1. Alexandria, the Mouseion, and cultural identity -- 2. Ptolemaic Alexandria and the Egyptian tradition -- 3. The face of Alexandria - the face of Africa? -- 4. Mosaics of Alexandria -- 5. Roman Alexandria from the perspective of the papyri -- 6. Images of Alexandria in the writings of the Second Sophistic -- 7. Life after death: an original form of bilingual iconography in the necropolis of Kawm al-Shuqafa -- 8. Jews and Christians in ancient Alexandria from the Ptolemies to Caracalla -- 9. The Alexandria Library in history -- 10. Venetian merchants and travellers in Alexandria -- 11. Merchants, pilgrims, naturalists: Alexandria through European eyes from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century -- 12. Environment, health and disease in Alexandria and the Nile Delta -- 13. Alexandria 1860-1960: the cosmopolitan identity -- 14. For Cavafy, with love and squalor: some critical notes on the history and historiography of modern Alexandria -- 15. Towards a social history of modern Alexandria -- 16. Egyptian literary images of Alexandria -- 17. A passage through Alexandria: the city in the writing of Durrell and Forster -- 18. Cavafy's Alexandrianism -- 19. Alexandrian poetry from Gallimachus to Eliot -- Index
Additional Edition:
9780754638902
Additional Edition:
Print version Hirst, Anthony Alexandria, Real and Imagined Florence : Taylor and Francis,c2004 9780754638902
Language:
English
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