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]