Alexandria, real and imagined / edited by Anthony Hirst and Michael Silk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirst, Anthony, 1945-

Silk, M. S. (Michael Stephen), 1941-

Series:

Publications (King's College (University of London). Centre for Hellenic Studies) ; 5.

Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London : publications ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexandria (Egypt)--History.

Alexandria (Egypt).

Alexandria (Egypt)--Civilization.

Physical Description:

xxx, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire [England] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]

Contents:

1. Alexandria, the Mouseion, and cultural identity / Herwig Maehler 1

2. Ptolemaic Alexandria and the Egyptian tradition / Sally-Ann Ashton 15

3. The face of Alexandria

the face of Africa? / Jessie Maritz 41

4. Mosaics of Alexandria / Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets 67

5. Roman Alexandria from the perspective of the papyri / Jane Rowlandson, Andrew Harker 79

6. Images of Alexandria in the writings of the Second Sophistic / M.B. Trapp 113

7. Life after death: an original form of bilingual iconography in the necropolis of Kawm al-Shuqafa / Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets, Mervat Seif el-Din 133

8. Jews and Christians in ancient Alexandria from the Ptolemies to Caracalla / James Carleton Paget 143

9. The Alexandria Library in history / Mostafa El-Abbadi 167

10. Venetian merchants and travellers in Alexandria / Giovanni Curatola 185

11. Merchants, pilgrims, naturalists: Alexandria through European eyes from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century / Anne Wolff 199

12. Environment, health and disease in Alexandria and the Nile Delta / George Contis 227

13. Alexandria 1860-1960: the cosmopolitan identity / Robert Mabro 247

14. For Cavafy, with love and squalor: some critical notes on the history and historiography of modern Alexandria / Khaled Fahmy 263

15. Towards a social history of modern Alexandria / Khaled Fahmy 281

16. Egyptian literary images of Alexandria / Azza Kararah 307

17. A passage through Alexandria: the city in the writing of Durrell and Forster / David Roessel 323

18. Cavafy's Alexandrianism / David Ricks 337

19. Alexandrian poetry from Callimachus to Eliot / Michael Silk 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754638901

OCLC:

52374200