Ptolemaic Alexandria [vol.1-3]
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Preface......Page 4 Contents......Page 8 Abbreviations......Page 10 Corrigenda......Page 13 Part I. The framework......Page 14 I......Page 15 II......Page 19 Map......Page 22 I......Page 53 II......Page 75 Period I: The third century down to about 215 BC......Page 77 Period II: about 215 to after 145 BC......Page 90 Period III: after 145 to 31 BC......Page 101 I......Page 108 II......Page 121 III......Page 130 I......Page 147 a) Trade and industry in Alexandria......Page 150 b) Internal trade......Page 158 c) Foreign trade......Page 163 1. The Italian and western trade of Alexandria......Page 165 2. Aegean trade......Page 175 Alexandria and Rhodes......Page 177 Alexandria and Delos......Page 184 3. Trade with South and East......Page 188 II......Page 200 5. Religious life......Page 204 I......Page 208 II......Page 228 III......Page 261 IV......Page 291 V......Page 301 Part II. The achievement......Page 317 I. Patronage......Page 318 II. The Mouseion......Page 325 III. The Library......Page 333 7. Alexandrian science......Page 349 I. Medicine......Page 351 The practitioner and society......Page 382 II. Mathematic and physical sciences......Page 389 III. The false sciences......Page 447 Conclusion......Page 457 8. Alexandrian scholarship......Page 460 I. The formative age: Zenodotus to Eratosthenes......Page 462 II. The classical age: Aristophanes and Aristarchus......Page 472 III. The period of decline......Page 480 IV. The influence of Alexandrian scholarship......Page 488 9. Alexandrian philosophy: the main phases......Page 493 I. Historiography......Page 508 II. Geographical writings......Page 533 III. The epigram......Page 566 IV. Narrative poetry and hymns......Page 631 V. Secondary literature, Greek, Egyptian and Jewish......Page 687 1. Greek and Egyptian secondary literature......Page 688 2. Jewish-Alexandrian literature......Page 700 11. The horizon of Callimachus......Page 730 I......Page 731 II......Page 774 III......Page 797 I......Page 807 II......Page 819 Notes......Page 826 Notes to the reader......Page 829 Corrigenda......Page 830 1......Page 835 2......Page 946 3......Page 1007 4......Page 1069 5......Page 1157 6......Page 1296 7 (i)......Page 1329 7 (ii)......Page 1386 8......Page 1481 9......Page 1527 10 (i)......Page 1551 10 (ii)......Page 1584 10 (iii)......Page 1625 10 (iv)......Page 1704 10 (v)......Page 1777 11......Page 1838 Epilogue......Page 1937 Some addenda......Page 1943 Indexes......Page 1951 Contents......Page 1953 I. General index......Page 1954 II. Index of classical authors......Page 2034 III. Greek inscriptions......Page 2078 IV. Greek papyri and ostraca......Page 2094 V. Select index of Greek words......Page 2103 VII. Arabic and other sources......Page 2109
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