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Alexandria - City of Gifts and Sorrows (Paperback)
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Alexandria - City of Gifts and Sorrows (Paperback)
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Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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Ancient Alexandria was built by the Greek Macedonians. Ptolemy
started the dynasty and in thirty years completed the first
lighthouse, and the grand library and museum, which functioned as a
university with an emphasis on science, known as "The Alexandrian
School". Scholars attended as "the birthplace of science" from all
over the ancient world. Two of the most eminent were Euclid, the
father of geometry, and Claudios Ptolemy, writer of The Almagest, a
book on astronomy. These are the oldest surviving science
textbooks. Herein there are stories about scientists, poets and
religious philosophers, responsible for influencing the western
mind with their writings.Modern Alexandria was rebuilt in 1805 by
multi-ethnic communities who created a successful commercial city
and port with an enviable life-style for its inhabitants for 150
years. In 1952 the Free Officers of the Egyptian Army masterminded
a coup to free the country from the monarchy and British
domination. In 1956 the socialist regime under Colonel Gamal Abdel
Nasser closed the Suez Canal, resulting in the Anglo-French-Israeli
invasion. This outburst of Egyptian nationalism and military
revolution by this understandably anti-Western regime included the
confiscation of property belonging to foreigners and the subsequent
mass exodus of business and artisan classes that hitherto had made
the city so successful. The author was an eye-witness to these
events and he sets out the political errors and failures of both
Egyptian and Western leaders. The legacy of the resulting political
and social confusions is deeply apparent in the continuing unrest
in the Middle East, and in particular in Egypt.
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