Alexandria
Subtitle: City of the Western Mind
Publisher: Free Press
Published: November 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780743205696
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; History Of Individual Cities; History: World; Ancient Egypt; Ancient - Egypt; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / General; Ancient - General; Alexandria (Egypt); Ancient history; History; History, Ancient
First sentence: WITHIN A CENTURY after Alexandria was built, it was larger than Carthage and growing so swiftly that is acknowledged no superior, even Rome.
Description: "Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of ancient world. Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the ancient world come alive. His central contention that this amazing metropolis created the western mind can now take its place in cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.