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Alexandria, Real and Imagined (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Alexandria, Real and Imagined (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
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Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an
extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up
to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic
diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman
and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the
memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and
by inhabitants of the city. In this volume of new essays,
Alexandria and its many images - the real and the imagined - are
illuminated from a rich variety of perspectives. These range from
art history to epidemiology, from social and cultural analysis to
re-readings of Cavafy and Callimachus, from the impressions of
foreign visitors to the evidence of police records, from the
constructions of Alexandria in Durrell and Forster to those in the
twentieth-century Arabic novel.
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