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The American University in Cairo Press, 2006. Softcover. Very Good++. 0x0x0. The American University in Cairo Press. 2006.8 vo,. pict. paper covers, xxx, 401 pages : illustrations, index. Very good/Fine condition clean tight and bright, cover is clean and strong.
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Alexandria Real and Imagined Paperback - 2006
by Hirst, Anthony & Michael Silk eds
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- Title Alexandria Real and Imagined
- Author Hirst, Anthony & Michael Silk eds
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- Publisher The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, Eygpt
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9789774160455
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Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2006. Book. Very Good. Paperbound. 8 vo,. pict. paper covers, xxx, 401 pages : illustrations, index. 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. CONTENTS: 1. Alexandria, the Mouseion, and cultural identity / Herwig Maehler -- 2. Ptolemaic Alexandria and the Egyptian tradition / Sally-Ann Ashton -- 3. The face of Alexandria -- the face of Africa? / Jessie Maritz -- 4. Mosaics of Alexandria / Anne-Mane Guimier-Sorbets -- 5. Roman Alexandria from the perspective of the papyri / Jane Rowlandson and Andrew Harker -- 6. Images of Alexandria in the writings of the Second Sophistic / M.B. Trapp -- 7. Life after death : an original form of bilingual iconography in the…
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