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The Rise and Fall of Alexandria- Birthplace of the Modern World

✍ Scribed by Pollard, Justin; Reid, Howard

Book ID
107192620
Publisher
Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first millennium. In this compulsively readable narrative, Justin Pollard and Howard Reid bring one of historyΠ²Π‚β„’s most fascinating and prolific cities to life, creating a treasure trove of our intellectual and cultural origins. Famous for its lighthouse, its library - the greatest in antiquity - and its fertile intellectual and spiritual life--it was here that Christianity and Islam came to prominence as world religions--Alexandria now takes its rightful place alongside Greece and Rome as a titan of the ancient world. Sparkling with fresh insights on science, philosophy, culture, and invention, this is an irresistible, eye-opening delight.

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