architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 B.C. to A.D. 700
By: Judith McKenzie
Series: Yale University Press Pelican history of art
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780300115550
Subjects: Architecture, Ancient -- Egypt -- Alexandria; Architecture, Ancient -- Egypt; Architecture -- Egypt -- Alexandria
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-444) and index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The setting.  How ancient Alexandria was lost; title: Reconstructing the plan of ancient Alexandria : the archaeological evidence; title: pt. 2. Ptolemaic period.  Ptolemaic Alexandria : buildings erected from the late fourth century to the mid-first century BC; title: Cleopatra's Alexandria, and the Roman conquest; title: Classical architectural style of Ptolemaic Alexandria and its depiction; title: Traditional Egyptian architecture; title: pt. 3. Roman period.  Classical architecture in the cities and towns of Roman Egypt; title: Roman Alexandria; title: Classical architectural style of Roman Alexandria and Egypt; title: pt. 4. Late antique (Byzantine) period.  The churches of late antique Alexandria : the written sources; title: Church buildings in late antique Egypt : the archaeological evidence; title: Architectural scholarship and education in Alexandria; title: Influence of Alexandria on Byzantine architecture outside Egypt; title: Pictorial tradition of Alexandrian architecture in Byzantine and early Islamic art