Alexandria: A History and a Guide
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Chapters (285)
- ALEXANDRIA: A HISTORY AND A GUIDE.
- PREFACE.
- AUTHORITIES.
- CONTENTS.
- APPENDICES.
- INDEX.
- LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS.
- PART I.
- SECTION I.
- THE LAND AND THE WATERS.
- PHAROS, RHAKOTIS, CANOPUS.
- ALEXANDER THE GREAT (B.C. 331).
- THE FOUNDATION PLAN.
- THE FIRST THREE PTOLEMIES.
- THE PTOLEMAIC CITY.
- THE LATER PTOLEMIES (B.C. 221-51).
- CLEOPATRA (B.C. 51-30).
- PTOLEMAIC CULTURE.
- SECTION II.
- THE RULE OF ROME (B.C. 30—A.D. 313).
- THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.
- ARIUS AND ATHANASIUS. (4th Cent. A.D.)
- THE RULE OF THE MONKS. (4th and 5th Cents.)
- THE ARAB CONQUEST (641).
- SECTION III.
- INTRODUCTION.
- I. THE JEWS.
- II. NEO-PLATONISM.
- III. CHRISTIANITY.
- SECTION IV.
- THE ARAB TOWN (7th-16th Cents.)
- THE TURKISH TOWN (16th-18th Cents.)
- SECTION V.
- NAPOLEON (1798-1801).
- MOHAMMED ALI (1805-1848).
- THE MODERN CITY.
- THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (1882).
- CONCLUSION.
- THE GOD ABANDONS ANTONY.
- PART II.
- SECTION I.
- THE SQUARE.
- Rue Rosette.
- THE GRECO-ROMAN MUSEUM.
- SECTION II.
- THE ANFOUCHI TOMBS.
- PREHISTORIC HARBOUR.
- FORT KAIT BEY (THE “PHAROS”).
- SECTION III.
- “POMPEY’S PILLAR” and the TEMPLE OF SERAPIS.
- CATACOMBS OF KOM ES CHOGAFA.
- SECTION IV.
- SECTION V.
- SECTION VI.
- SECTION VII.
- ABOUKIR.
- ROSETTA.
- Section VIII.
- ABOUSIR.
- ST. MENAS.
- THE WADY NATRUN.
- Appendix I. THE MODERN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES.
- Appendix II. THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA (p. 27).
- Appendix III. THE UNCANONICAL GOSPELS OF EGYPT. (p. 73).
- Appendix IV. THE NICENE CREED. (pp. 49 and 75).
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