CONTENTS.

Page
Preface[i]
Authorities[iii]

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]

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]

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]

SECTION IV: ARAB PERIOD.

The Arab Town[80]
The Turkish Town[82]

SECTION V: MODERN PERIOD.

Napoleon[86]
Mohammed Ali[88]
The Modern City[90]
The Bombardment of Alexandria[93]
Conclusion[97]
The God abandons Antony[98]

PART II: GUIDE.

SECTION I:

FROM THE SQUARE TO RUE ROSETTE.

The Square[102]
Statue of Mohammed Ali[102]
Banco di Roma[103]
Rue Rosette[104]
Mosque of the Prophet Daniel[104]
St. Saba[106]
Greco-Roman Museum[107]

SECTION II:

FROM THE SQUARE TO RAS-EL TIN.

Chorbagi Mosque[124]
Terbana Mosque[125]
Abou el Abbas Mosque[126]
Anfouchi Tombs[126]
Ras-el-Tin Palace[129]
Prehistoric Harbour[130]
Fort Kait Bey (The Pharos)[133]

SECTION III: FROM THE SQUARE TO THE SOUTHERN QUARTERS.

Place St. Catherine[142]
Attarine Mosque[143]
Old Protestant Cemetery[144]
“Pompey’s Pillar” and Temple of Serapis[144]
Kom es Chogafa Catacombs[148]
Mahmoudieh Canal[151]

SECTION IV: FROM THE SQUARE TO NOUZHA.

Municipal Gardens[154]
Antique Tomb (Pompey’s?)[155]
French War Memorial[156]
Nouzha Gardens[156]
Antoniadis Gardens[157]
Antique Tomb[157]

SECTION V: FROM THE SQUARE TO RAMLEH.

Caesareum and Cleopatra’s Needles (site of)[161]
Abercrombie Monument[165]
Abou el Nawatir[165]
San Stefano Casino[166]
Spouting Rocks[166]

SECTION VI: FROM THE SQUARE TO MEX.

Mex[171]
Fort Agame[171]

SECTION VII: ABOUKIR AND ROSETTA.

Montazah[175]
Aboukir[176]
Canopus[180]
Baths of “Cleopatra”[183]
Edku[184]
Rosetta[185]

SECTION VIII: THE LYBIAN DESERT.

Abousir[191]
Burg el Arab[194]
St. Menas[195]
Wady Natrun[200]
Natrun Monasteries[204]