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.