Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece /

As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so remini...

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Other Authors: Harris, William V. (Editor), Ruffini, Giovanni (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition ; 26.

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