The Rise and Fall of Alexandria

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by Justin Pollard

Antirrhodos

  Antonius, Aurelius. See Caracalla

  Antony, Mark

  and Cleopatra

  Pergamum library as gift to Cleopatra

  war against Octavian

  Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)

  Apis

  Apis bull

  Apollonius (finance minister of Ptolemy )

  Apollonius of Rhodes

  Appian

  Arcesilaus

  Archimedean screw

  Archimedes

  Aristarchus’s book on heliocentric universe referenced by

  compound pulley developed by

  death of

  friendship with Eratosthenes and Conon

  and hydrostatics

  odometer of

  possible computer (Antikythera mechanism) of

  siege weapons designed by

  tomb of

  Areopagitica (Milton)

  Arianism

  Aristarchus

  heliocentric solar system of

  on sizes of celestial bodies

  Aristeas

  Aristippus

  Aristophanes of Byzantium

  Aristotle

  and Alexander the Great

  on Cleomenes

  death of

  as empiricist

  establishment of Lyceum

  on Hippodamus

  on mechanization

  and scientific method

  on Thales

  youth and education of

  Arithmetica (Diophantus of Alexandria)

  Arius

  banishment of

  death of

  on nature of Christ

  Armillary sphere

  Arnold, Matthew

  Arrian

  Arsinoe (Ptolemy ’s first wife)

  Arsinoe (Ptolemy ’s daughter)

  Arsinoe (Ptolemy ’s mother)

  Arsinoe (Ptolemy ’s wife)

  Asclepius

  Asclepius (Hermes Trismegistus)

  Astrology, Ptolemy on

  Astronomical Diaries of the celestial seers of Babylon

  Astronomy

  of Aristarchus

  “Egyptian system” of Heraclitus

  mathematics of Pythagoras and

  of Ptolemy

  rotating earth idea of Philolaus

  Athanasius

  Athenaeus of Naucratis

  Athens

  Augustine, Saint

  Aurelius, Marcus

  Automata (Hero of Alexandria)

  Automatons of Hero of Alexandria

  Bacon, Francis

  Banking system created by Ptolemy

  Banquet, The (Arius)

  Bar-Hebraeus

  Bartholomew, Saint

  Battles

  Fort of Camels

  of Gaugamela

  of Granicus

  of Issus

  Behaim, Martin

  Benedict

  Berenice (Antiochus Theos’s wife)

  Berenice (Ptolemy ’s wife)

  Bevan, Edwyn R.

  Bills of exchange

  Blavatsky, H. P.

  Book of Fallacies (Euclid)

  Bottomley, Gordon

  Brahe, Tycho

  Brucheum

  Bryaxis

  Caesar, Augustus. See Octavian

  Caesar, Julius

  Alexandrine War. See Alexandrine War

  arrival in Alexandria

  assassination of

  and Cleopatra

  and Pompey

  Caesarion

  Caesarium (Sebasteum)

  Caligula

  Callimachus

  library classification system of

  writings of

  Callisthenes

  Callixeinus of Rhodes

  Cambridge Platonists

  Cambyses , King

  Canals, in layout and design of Alexandria

  Canopic Way

  Cape Cod (Thoreau)

  Caracalla

  fury unleashed on Alexandria by

  murdering of brother

  persecution of Aristotelian philosophers by

  Carthaginians

  Cassius, Avidius

  Cassius Dio

  Catapults, designed by Archimedes

  Cato

  Catoptrica (Hero of Alexandria)

  Catullus

  Celestial seers of Babylon

  Celsus

  on Christ and his teachings

  reconciliation and return to true path

  on separatism of Christianity and Judaism

  Celsus, A. Cornelius

  Century of Translations from the Greek Anthology, A (Gunnyon)

  Christianity

  anti-Christian purges

  and Arius. See Arius

  and Athanasius

  Celsus’s assault on

  and Clement of Alexandria’s works. See Clement of Alexandria

  Cyril. See Cyril

  Didascalia as first school of

  Origen’s philosophy. See Origen

  and Philo of Alexandria’s writings

  Plotinus’s philosophy influencing

  Chronicle of John, Bishop of Nikiu (Charles)

  Chronology (Eratosthenes)

  Chronology of Alexandria

  Cicero

  Circumference of earth measured by Eratosthenes

  Civil Wars, The (Appian)

  Classical Dictionary Writ Large (Lemprière)

  Claudian

  Claudius

  Cleanthes

  Clement of Alexandria

  education at Didascalia under

  works of

  Cleomenes Cleomenes

  Cleopatra . See Cleopatra

  Cleopatra

  and Alexandrine War

  death of

  and Julius Caesar

  and Mark Antony

  Pergamum library as gift to

  youth and education of

  Cleopatra Selene

  Cleopatra’s Needles

  Clepsydra

  Coin-based currency

  Colossus of Rhodes

  Columbus, Christopher

  Commentaires de Pappus et de Théon (Rome)

  “Commentary by Theon of Alexandria on Book of Ptolemy’s Almagest” (Theon)

  Commentary on Genesis (Philo of Alexandria)

  Commentary on the First Book of Euclid’s “Elements,” A (Proclus)

  Commentary on the Gallic and Wars (Julius Caesar)

  Compound pulley developed by Archimedes

  Conon

  Constantine, Emperor

  Constantinople

  Contemplative Life (Philo of Alexandria)

  Contra Celsus (Origen of Alexandria)

  Copernicus, Nicolaus

  Coptic

  Corpus Hermeticum (Theon)

  Council of Nicaea

  Croesus, King

  Ctesibius

  Cybele

  Cymbeline (Shakespeare)

  Cyrene

  Cyril

  campaign to become patriarch

  expulsion of Jewish population by

  heresy accusation against Nestorius

  power struggle with Orestes

  role in murder of Hypatia

  suppression of Novation sect

  Damascius

  Darius , King

  Darwin, Charles

  De Architectura (Vitruvius Pollio)

  Decius

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon)

  Delta rebellion, against Ptolemy

  Demetrius, Bishop

  Demetrius of Phalerum

  Demosthenes

  De Opificio Mundi (Philo of Alexandria)

  De Presidentia (Philo of Alexandria) Dercyllides

  Design of Alexandria

  De Specialibus Legibus (Philo of Alexandria)

  Dialogues of the Dead (Lucian)

  Dias, Bartholomeu

  Didascalia

  Dinocrates of Rhodes

  Dio Chrysostom

  Diodorus
Siculus

  on Alexander’s casket and carriage

  on Alexander’s final illness

  on growth of Alexandria

  on Ptolemy’s heroics at Fort of Camels

  Diogenes Laertius

  on Plato

  on Socrates

  on Strato

  on Thales

  on Theophrastus

  Dionysius of Cyzicus

  Dionysus (god)

  Dionysus (rabble-rouser)

  Diophantus of Alexandria

  Dioptra (Hero of Alexandria)

  Dogmatists

  Domna, Julia

  Dynasties of Alexandria

  Ecclesiastical History (Socrates Scholasticus)

  Eclipses, predicted by Theon

  Economy, planning by Ptolemy of

  Egypt

  Ammon temple visit and godhood of Alexander

  and Apis bull

  ceded to Alexander

  fusion of Greek and Egyptian religious customs into new cult of Serapis under Ptolemy

  Ptolemy’s coming to power in

  Egyptian Book of the Dead

  “Egyptian system” of Heraclitus

  Eleazar

  Elements (Euclid)

  Elements of Music (Euclid)

  Eleusinian mystery cult of Demeter and Persephone

  Embassy to Gaius, The (Philo of Alexandria)

  Emerald Tablet (Hermes Trismegistus)

  Empiricists

  Empson, William

  Engineering

  of Archimedes. See Archimedes

  of Hero. See Hero of Alexandria

  Enneads (Plotinus)

  Epic of Medicine, The (F. Marti-Ibanez)

  Epigrams (Claudian)

  Epigrams (Martial)

  Epiphanius of Salamis

  Erasistratus

  Erasmus

  Eratosthenes

  books of

  calendar of

  death of

  geography of

  mapmaking of

  mathematics of

  nature and measurements of earth by

  poetry of

  tilt of earth’s axis calculated by

  as tutor of Ptolemy

  youth and education of

  Eratosthenes’ sieve

  Erigone (Eratosthenes)

  Essenes of Palestine

  Ethnic districts

  Euclid

  Eunapius of Antioch

  Eunostos

  Euprepes

  Eurydice, Queen

  Eusebius

  Eustochius of Alexandria

  Exhortation (Clement of Alexandria)

  Exhortation to Martyrdom (Origen)

  Fant, Maureen B.

  Fantasia of the Unconscious (Lawrence)

  Farrar, F. W.

  Faustina

  Fermat, Pierre de

  Festivals, under Ptolemy

  “Few Figs from Thistles, A” (Millay)

  First Punic War

  Flaccus, Avillius

  Flour, used in building of Alexandria

  Fort of Camels

  Founding of Alexandria

  Galen

  as personal physician to Marcus Aurelius

  pluralistic approach to medicine of

  treatment of gladiators by

  youth and education of

  Galileo Galilei

  Gate of the Moon

  Gate of the Sun

  Gaugamela, battle of

  Gelon, King

  Geminus

  Geographia (Claudius Ptolemy)

  Geography

  of Eratosthenes

  of Ptolemy

  Geography (Strabo)

  Geometry. See Mathematics

  Geta

  Gibbon, Edward

  Gnomon

  Gordian

  Gordian Knot

  Gordias

  Gospel of Matthew

  Government, Plato on

  Goya

  Grain

  as driving force of economy

  lost in revolt against Ptolemy

  Granicus, battle of

  Great Chain of Being

  Greatest, The (Claudius Ptolemy). See Almagest (Claudius Ptolemy)

  Great Harbor of Alexandria

  Gridiron design of Alexandria

  Gunnyon, W.

  Handy Tables (Claudius Ptolemy)

  Harbors of Alexandria

  Harvey, William

  Heath, T.

  Hecataeus of Abdera

  Hegel, G. W. F.

  Heliocentric solar system of Aristarchus

  Helladius

  Heptastadion

  Heraclitus

  Heraclius

  Herakleitos and Diogenes (Heraclitus)

  Heresy

  Arian

  Cyril’s accusation against Nestorius

  Hermes

  Hermes (Eratosthenes)

  Hermes Trismegistus

  Hermetica (Hermes Trismegistus)

  Herod Agrippa

  Herodotus

  on Apis cult

  travel writing of

  Herod the Great

  Hero of Alexandria

  geometry of

  omen machine of

  slot machine of

  stage machinery of

  steam engine of

  Herophilus

  Herwennefer

  Hesiod (Eratosthenes)

  Hibeh Papyrus

  Hierax

  Hiero

  Hipparchus

  Hippocrates

  Hippodamus of Miletus

  Historia Augusta

  Histories, The (Herodotus)

  Histories, The (Polybius)

  History of Dynasties (Bar-Hebraeus)

  History of Greek Mathematics, A (Heath)

  History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria (Severus of Al-Ashumein)

  History of the Peloponnesian Wars, The (Thucydides)

  Holy Communion, Clement of Alexander on

  Holy Trinity, Origen on

  Homer

  Horus

  House of Ptolemy, The (Bevan)

  How to Write History (Lucian)

  Hunter, R. .

  Hydrostatics, Archimedes’ invention of

  Hypatia

  Cyril’s role in murder of

  school and teachings of

  youth and education of

  Iamblichus

  Ibn Battuta

  Idylls (Theocritus)

  Idylls of the King (Tennyson)

  Iliad (Homer)

  Instructor (Clement of Alexandria)

  Introduction to Plotinus (Porphyry)

  Isis

  Isis Cow

  Isodorus

  Issus, battle of

  Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica ) (Apollonius of Rhodes)

  Jesus

  Arius on nature of

  Celsus on

  dining with tax collector

  preaching of faith

  Jews

  anti-Semitism under prefect Flaccus

  Cyril’s expulsion of

  in first-century-AD Alexandria

  in fourth-century-AD Alexandria

  Jewish quarter of Alexandria

  and Philo of Alexandria’s works. See Philo of Alexandria

  translation of Bible into Greek for library of Alexandria

  John, bishop of Nikiu

  John of Seville

  Jondet, Gaston

  Juba , King

  Julian calendar

  Jupiter

  Justice, Plato on

  Justinian, Emperor

  Kepler, Johannes

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Khosrau , Emperor

  Kingsley, Charles

  Knowledge, Plato on

  Koestler, Arthur

  Kondos, Dimitrios

  Kühn . G.

  Lagus

  Lake Mareotis

  Lampo

  Laodice

  Larensis

  Latitude, Claudi
us Ptolemy’s development of

  Lawrence . H.

  Laws (Plato)

  Layout of Alexandria

  Learned Banquet, The (Athenaeus of Naucratis)

  Lefkowitz, Mary R.

  Lemprière, John

  Leonides

  Lepidus

  Letters of Synesius

  Letter to Porphyry (Eustochius of Alexandria)

  Lewis . S.

  Library classification system of Callimachus

  Library of Alexandria -

  Bar-Hebraeus’s story regarding fate of

  burning of library by Caesar

  classification system of Callimachus

  Demetrius’s work for Ptolemy in establishing

  fate of

  founding of

  and fury of Caracalla

  librarians of

  Ptolemy ’s construction of

  Serapeum. See Serapeum

  translation of Bible for

  Library of History (Diodorus)

  Libyan Ammon cult

  Life of Alexander, in Parallel Lives (Plutarch)

  Life of Isidore (Damascius)

  Life of Moses, The (Philo of Alexandria)

  Life of Pythagoras, The (Iamblichus)

  Lighthouse on Pharos

  Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, The (Diogenes Laertius)

  Lives of the Fathers (Farrar)

  Livy

  Logos, the Word

  Longitude, Claudius Ptolemy’s development of

  Los Caprichos (Goya)

  Lucan

  Lucian

  Lyceum

  Aristotle’s establishment of

  Theophrastus at

  Lycidas (Milton)

  Lycophron

  Lysanias

  Lysimachos, King

  Maat (state of harmony)

  Macedonians

  assassination of Perdiccas

  Ptolemy’s defeat of Perdiccas at Fort of Camels

  Machinery of Hero of Alexandria

  MacKail, J. W.

  Maecianus, Lucius

  Malalas

  Malchus of Tyros

  Manetho

  Manuwil

  Mapmaking

  of Eratosthenes

  of Ptolemy

  Marcellus

  Mariette, Auguste

  Mark, Saint

  Markets, development of

  Martial

  Marti-Ibanez, F.

  Mathematical Collection (Pappus)

  Mathematics

  of Diophantus of Alexandria

  of Eratosthenes

  of Euclid

  of Hero

  of Pythagoras

  Mathematikoi

  Mausolus, King

  Mechanica (Hero of Alexandria)

  Medicine

  establishment of school of

  Galen. See Galen

  Memphis, Egypt

  Alexander’s body in

  Apis bull in

  capital of Egypt moved from Memphis to Alexandria

  Menes

  Metallurgy

  Metaphysics (Aristotle)

  Methodists

  Metrica (Hero of Alexandria)

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent

  Milton, John

  “Missing Dates” (Empson)

  Mithradates of Pergamum

  Mithraism

  Moralia (Plutarch)

  Moral philosophy

  More, Thomas

  Moses

  Muhammad

  Mummification

 

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