WITHIN A CENTURY after Alexandria was built, it was larger than Carthage and growing so swiftly that is acknowledged no superior, even Rome.
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Alexandria
City of the Western Mind
by Theodore Vrettos
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"Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of ancient world. Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the ancient world come alive. His central contention that this amazing metropolis created the western mind can now take its place in cultural history."--BOOK JACKET.
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Alexandria: City of the Western Mind
2010, Simon & Schuster, Limited
in English
1451603487 9781451603484
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Alexandria: City of the Western Mind
November 27, 2001, Free Press
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in English
0743205693 9780743205696
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"WITHIN A CENTURY after Alexandria was built, it was larger than Carthage and growing so swiftly that is acknowledged no superior, even Rome."
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