PART I: HISTORY.

SECTION I: GRECO-EGYPTIAN PERIOD.

The Land and the Waters 5 Pharos, Rhakotis, Canopus 6 Alexander the Great 8 The Foundation Plan 9 The First Three Ptolemies 11 The Ptolemaic City 16 The Later Ptolemies 21 Cleopatra 23 Ptolemaic Culture: 28 Literature 29 Scholarship 34 Art 35 Philosophy 36 Science 36

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SECTION II: CHRISTIAN PERIOD.

The Rule of Rome 44 The Christian Community 45 Arius and Athanasius 47 The Rule of the Monks 50 The Arab Conquest 52

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SECTION III: THE SPIRITUAL CITY.

Introduction 60 The Jews 62 Neo-Platonism 64 Christianity: 69 Introduction 69 Gnosticism 71 Orthodoxy 72 Arianism 75 Monophysism 76 Monothelism 76 Conclusion: Islam 77

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SECTION IV: ARAB PERIOD.

The Arab Town 80 The Turkish Town 82

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SECTION V: MODERN PERIOD.

Napoleon 86 Mohammed Ali 88 The Modern City 90 The Bombardment of Alexandria 93 Conclusion 97

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The God abandons Antony 98

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