Alexandria, Real and Imagined (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London)

by Michael Silk (Author), Anthony Hirst (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $143.42

  Offers a portrait of an extraordinary city as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants and by outsiders, from the time of its foundation in the 4th century BC up to the 20th century. As the capital of a Hellenistic kingdom, then as a major city in the Roman, Byzantine and Arab empires, Alexandria was renowned as an intellectual city.