Table of Contents

Full Contents Preface Chapter 1 `A Man Emminent on All Accounts' Chapter 2 `Founded to Satisfy the Soaring Ambition of some King' Chapter 3 `Hope of Safety to the Voyager' Chapter 4 The `Magnanimity' of Ptolemy II Philadephus Chapter 5 `Amours and Adulteries and the Deceits of Women' Chapter 6 `In the Midst of the Marketplace' Chapter 7 `Wholesale Deprivation of All that is Noble' Chapter 8 `Schools of Prudence and Courage and Temperance and Justice' Chapter 9 `An Art of Healing that Treats the Soul' Chapter 10 `Superintendence in Sickness and Health' Chapter 11 `In a City Not Their Own' Bibliography

About the Author

Dorothy I.Sly is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University,Ontario.She is the author of Philo's Perception of Women(1990).

Reviews

`The strongest feature of Sly's treatment is her desire imaginatively to reconstruct what life in Alexandria was like; since so little of the place survives ...' - Times Literary Supplement

`This is a fascinating and unusual account of a city whose archaeology, churned by constant seismic upheavals, is still relatively obscure.' - Oxbow Book News.