Downloade Alexandria: A History And A Guide By E. M. Forster Pdf Ebook
Downloade Alexandria: A History And A Guide By E. M. Forster Pdf Ebook Genre : Classics ,Books ,Fiction & Literature The “History” attempts (after the fashion of a pageant) to marshal the activities of Alexandria during the two thousand two hundred and fifty years of her existence. Starting with the heroic figure of Alexander the Great; it inspects the dynasty of the Ptolemies; and in particular the career of the last of them; Cleopatra; an account of Ptolemaic literature and science follows; and closes this splendid period; to which I have given the title of “Greco-Egyptian.” The second period; called “Christian”; begins with the rule of Rome; and traces the fortunes of Christianity; first as a persecuted and then as a persecuting power: all is lost in 641; when the Patriarch Cyrus betrays Alexandria to the Arabs. An interlude comes next—“The Spiritual City”—which meditates upon Alexandrian philosophy and religion; both Pagan and Christian: it seemed better to segregate these s...