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Author | : William V. Harris |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9047406389 |
This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.
Author | : J S Landor |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-11-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1788034155 |
An action-packed, high concept, time-travelling adventure. Full of animal magic and with an epic wolf character. Linked to a website with ‘Meet the Character’ profiles, book excerpt and background stories
Author | : Fleming MacLiesh |
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Includes a blurb on the dust cover by A.M.
Author | : Peter A Clayton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136748105 |
Sets each of the seven wonders in their historical context, bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results of modern excavations to suggest why particular places and objects have been seen as the touchstone for human achievement.
Author | : Virgil Mores Hillyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Animals |
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History is presented with a personal viewpoint of how and why it may have happened.
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Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1833 |
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Author | : Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge |
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Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1833 |
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Author | : Nigel Spivey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1681771918 |
A masterly investigation into the Classical roots of Western civilization, taking the reader on an illuminating journey from Troy, Athens, and Sparta to Utopia, Alexandria, and Rome. An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development, and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centered on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilization. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilization, Nigel Spivey explores the contrasting politics of Athens and Sparta, the diffusion of classical ideals across the Mediterranean world, Classical science and philosophy, the eastward export of Greek culture with the conquests of Alexander the Great, the power and spread of the Roman imperium, and the long Byzantine twilight of Antiquity.
Author | : Charles Hohmann |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2024-08-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3759712916 |
From the war-torn skies over Britain during the 2nd World War, the story transports us to the blood drenched desert sands of Victorian England's campaign in the torrid Sudan and the monasteries of the Sketian desert, from which a military chaplain joins his brother in England, an academic who is struggling to preserve his marriage. The two dissimilar characters, whose paths have crossed again, envision a brighter future but they fail to see the spectre of the ghostly hand on the wall that conjures up the end of the world order as they know it.....
Author | : Islam Issa |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2024-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 163936546X |
An original, authoritative, and lively cultural history of the first modern city, from pre-Homeric times to the present day. Islam Issa’s father had always told him about their city's magnificence, and as he looked at the new library in Alexandria it finally hit home. This is no ordinary library. And Alexandria is no ordinary city. Combining rigorous research with myth and folklore, Alexandria is an authoritative history of a city that has shaped our modern world. Soon after being founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria became the crucible of cultural exchange between East and West for millennia and the undisputed global capital of knowledge. It was at the forefront of human progress, but it also witnessed brutal natural disasters, plagues, crusades and violence. Major empires fought over Alexandria, from the Greeks and Romans to the Arabs, Ottomans, French, and British. Key figures shaped the city from its eponymous founder to Aristotle, Cleopatra, Saint Mark the Evangelist, Napoleon Bonaparte and many others, each putting their own stamp on its identity and its fortunes. And millions of people have lived in this bustling seaport on the Mediterranean. From its humble origins to its dizzy heights and its latest incarnation, Islam Issa tells us the rich and gripping story of a city that changed the world.