Alexandria : city of gifts and sorrows : from Hellenistic civilization to multiethnic metropolis /

Alexandria : city of gifts and sorrows : from Hellenistic civilization to multiethnic metropolis /

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Main Author: Polyzoides, Apostolos.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Brighton ; Chicago: Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2014.

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Alexandria (Egypt)—History.

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Call Number: DT154 .A4 P66 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Alexandria in the early 1950s
  • Modern Alexandrian authors
  • Reflections on ancient Alexandria
  • Alexander III the Great
  • The quest for the elusive tomb of Alexander the Great
  • Alexandria the great
  • The collapse of ancient Alexandria
  • Rebirth of Alexandria, 1805-1952
  • Foreign communities
  • Four years of uncertainty and anxiety, 1952-1956
  • The Suez Canal war
  • The decline of modern Alexandria.