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Preface i
Authorities iii
PART I: HISTORY.
SECTION I: GRECO-EGYPTIAN PERIOD.
The Land and the Waters 5
Pharos, Rhakotis, Canopus 6
Alexander the Great 8
The Foundation Plan 9
The First Three Ptolemies 11
The Ptolemaic City 16
The Later Ptolemies 21
Cleopatra 23
Ptolemaic Culture: 28
Literature 29
Scholarship 34
Art 35
Philosophy 36
Science 36
SECTION II: CHRISTIAN PERIOD.
The Rule of Rome 44
The Christian Community 45
Arius and Athanasius 47
The Rule of the Monks 50
The Arab Conquest 52
SECTION III: THE SPIRITUAL CITY.
Introduction 60
The Jews 62
Neo-Platonism 64
Christianity: 69
Introduction 69
Gnosticism 71
Orthodoxy 72
Arianism 75
Monophysism 76
Monothelism 76
Conclusion: Islam 77
SECTION IV: ARAB PERIOD.
The Arab Town 80
The Turkish Town 82
SECTION V: MODERN PERIOD.
Napoleon 86
Mohammed Ali 88
The Modern City 90
The Bombardment of Alexandria 93
Conclusion 97
The God abandons Antony 98
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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