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Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Contributors 10 List of figures 14 List of abbreviations 16 Translation, transliteration, and acknowledgements 18 Preface 22 Editors' introduction 26 1. Alexandria, the Mouseion, and cultural identity 32 2. Ptolemaic Alexandria and the Egyptian tradition 46 3. The face of Alexandria - the face of Africa? 72 4. Mosaics of Alexandria 98 5. Roman Alexandria from the perspective of the papyri 110 6. Images of Alexandria in the writings of the Second Sophistic 144 7. Life after death: an original form of bilingual iconography in the necropolis of Kawm al-Shuqafa 164 8. Jews and Christians in ancient Alexandria from the Ptolemies to Caracalla 174 9. The Alexandria Library in history 198 10. Venetian merchants and travellers in Alexandria 216 11. Merchants, pilgrims, naturalists: Alexandria through European eyes from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century 230 12. Environment, health and disease in Alexandria and the Nile Delta 258 13. Alexandria 1860-1960: the cosmopolitan identity 278 14. For Cavafy, with love and squalor: some critical notes on the history and historiography of modern Alexandria 294 15. Towards

Author

Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk

Published

2017

Language

EN