Alexandria: A History and a Guide
by E. M. Forster
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About this eBook
- Author
- E. M. Forster
- Credits
- Produced by Mary Glenn Krause, MFR, Barry Abrahamsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Alexandria (Egypt) -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57010
- Release Date
- April 21, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ALEXANDRIA : A HISTORY AND A GUIDE.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.AUTHORITIES.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.APPENDICES.
- 6.INDEX.
- 7.LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS.
- 8.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.
- 9.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.
- 10.Appendix I. THE MODERN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES.
- 11.Appendix II . THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA (p. 27 ).
- 12.Appendix III. THE UNCANONICAL GOSPELS OF EGYPT. (p. 73 ).
- 13.Appendix IV. THE NICENE CREED. (pp. 49 and 75).
- 14.INDEX OF MAIN REFERENCES
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