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Say Farewell To Alexandreia

Author : K. D. Zenios
Publisher : Ζένιος Κυριάκος
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Say Farewell To Alexandreia written by K. D. Zenios and published by Ζένιος Κυριάκος. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SAY FAREWELL TO ALEXANDREIA This is the tumultuous love story of Olympias and Lycos, set during the last eleven months of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt, and the incredibly dramatic events of that period, culminating in the fall of Alexandria. A widow at 16, Olympias becomes an involuntary go-between the palace and Lycos. And the two become lovers. Together they will face an incredible adventure while Cleopatra’s ships are being dragged through the desert to the Red Sea and then they will become entangled in an abortive attempt to murder Anthony. Lycos, on the other hand, is an enigmatic, powerfully-built Scythian mercenary in the services of the Parthian king who arrives in Alexandria with a proposal which aspires to stall the invading Octavian, and which entails the ambitious undertaking of moving the Egyptian ships from the Mediterranean to the safety of the Red Sea. The lovers will meet for the last time at Olympias’ paternal house, where the terrible secret is revealed

Farewell to Alexandria

Author : Suzanne Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780440125877
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Alexandria written by Suzanne Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Farewell Alexandria

Author : Derek Adie Flower
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847534422
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Farewell Alexandria written by Derek Adie Flower and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a story spanning eighty years of a family that changed world history, flashbacks, fast-forwards and multiple plots intersect each other while innocent romance, steamy sex, noble sentiments, treachery and a whodunit- style mystery keeps the reader turning the pages. Set against a changing backdrop of pre-war Egypt, of Paris, London and New York in the sixties and seventies, terrorism in the Middle East and famine in Ethiopia, all the aspects of human strengths and frailties are brought to life in this three generation saga where a dramatic climax re-dimensions a man's destiny.

Farewell to Alexandria

Author : Harry E. Tzalas
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617972215
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Alexandria written by Harry E. Tzalas and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven short stories in this book take us back to an Alexandria past, the cosmopolitan city as it was experienced by the author in the years before, during, and following the Second World War. Against a backdrop of major events in Alexandria's history, from the halcyon days of the late 1930s, through the alarums of the War, to the 1952 Revolution and the dispersion of almost the entire foreign community of the city, Tzalas weaves his stories peopled with characters from his youth. These are ordinary people, people of different nationalities and faiths, but all Alexandrians, living side by side in the Great City. In describing each character with great sensitivity and perception, Tzalas succeeds not only in capturing the essence of the city itself, but in poignantly foretelling the fundamental changes and exodus that were to come. The events surrounding, among others, a German family caught in the city during the Second World War, three French monks, an old Greek musician, and a group of cultivated elderly Alexandrian gentlemen, are told with an affection often tinged with sadness. Through these characters, Tzalas tells the story of everyday lives caught up in the turbulent currents of history and the transformation of a beloved city the end of an era. Each of the eleven stories is accompanied by an evocative illustration by Anna Boghiguian.

Levant

Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300176228
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Levant written by Philip Mansel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.

The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great (Second Edition)

Author : Andrew Chugg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0955679060
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great (Second Edition) written by Andrew Chugg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004 the author's first book "The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great" was published to the accompaniment of international media attention, since it reported the first credible suggestion as to the current whereabouts of the long-vanished corpse of the illustrious conqueror. In the intervening years, progress by testing the candidate remains has been thwarted by the Church authorities, yet much new information has emerged, casting the enigma in an ever more probing light. In this extensively updated and extended account, the meanderings of the evidence have been tracked with scrupulous care and the tangled threads of erstwhile hidden history have been teased apart. Thus the forgotten secrets of one of the greatest mysteries bequeathed to us by the ancient world are laid bare, culminating in the novel suggestion that the body stolen from Alexandria in AD828 and now in Venice may have acquired a false identity at the time that paganism was outlawed by the Emperor of Rome in the 4th century AD.

Remember Me

Author : David Stacton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571304982
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Remember Me written by David Stacton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'King Ludwig has fascinated me ever since I was a child, yet fascination is not quite the right word. Fellow-feeling would be the proper phrase...' David Stacton, 1957 With his fourth published novel - and his first on historical themes and personages - David Stacton's writing career took a decisive turn. Remember Me, over which he laboured for four years, is an extraordinarily vivid and felt portrait of the infamous Ludwig II of Bavaria, evoking with assurance the strange and poetic landscape that shaped him. Stacton described the book in genesis to his editor as 'a study in madness, of the regal temperament and its reflexes, pushed to that point when it has nothing but the past to govern.' 'A tour de force...An extraordinary feat of dreamlike identification. The compression is masterly.' Observer '[Stacton's] prose, alternating... between stabbing vigour and florid ornament, powerfully suggests the frustrations of that unhappy spirit.' Times Literary Supplement

Cleopatra

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780221142
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Cleopatra written by Michael Grant and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was also a scholar, murderer, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and one of the most remarkable women in history. The distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant confirms that her reputation as a temptress was well-founded. However, by unravelling the sources behind the tangle of myth, gossip and invention he shows that the popular image of a wayward woman opting for a life of sensuous luxury and neglecting her affairs of state is far from the truth. A brilliant linguist and the first of her Greek-speaking dynasty who learned Egyptian, she was reputed to be the author of treatises on agriculture, make-up and alchemy. Her love affairs were carefully calculated to further her plans to restore her empire to its former greatness and she was a ruthless foe to all who stood in her way. But dead on her golden couch in the palace at Alexandria her life seemed to have ended in failure; her dreams of empire shattered; her lover Mark Antony a suicide himself and she a prisoner of her conqueror Octavian. An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary queen and her stormy life.

Alexandria Stories

Author : Nagui Achamallah
Publisher : Nagui Achamallah
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexandria Stories written by Nagui Achamallah and published by Nagui Achamallah. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a trip from California to his native city of Alexandria, Dr. Sami Boutros, a retired psychiatrist, meets a man who calls himself Senuhi. He presumes that the man seeks his medical opinion, but he discovers that Senuhi is his guide on a mysterious journey through the memory of the city. Sami's life merges with that of generations of Alexandria's lovers who cross his path and become his travel companions. Together they relive the city's battle with the sea of time and watch her fortunes ebb and flow with the waves of the Mediterranean. They witness her greatest monuments crumble and feed the flames of her destruction. And they learn that the essence of Alexandria was never the sum of her monuments, but the private vision created in the minds of those who love her.

Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry

Author : Isabelle Keller-Privat
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683930630
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Lawrence Durrell’s Poetry written by Isabelle Keller-Privat and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell’s entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of Durrell’s writing, both poetic and fictional, drawing links to his novels and residence books, which he kept writing at the same time. Durrell thus appears as first and foremost one of the greatest late modernist poets whose literary and epistemological investigations are to be understood in the light of a worldwide network of literary brotherhoods including T. S. Eliot, Michael Fraenkel, Henry Miller, and David Gascoyne. Simultaneously, this book shows why Durrell must also be read as the heir to the greatest English romantic poets (Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth) as well as to the French symbolists and modernists (from Baudelaire to Nerval, Valéry, and Cendrars).This comparative approach opens up a brand new perspective on Durrell that has not yet been broached by North American and English scholarship. The symbolic patterns, the stylistic ploys, and the aesthetic and philosophic tenets that characterize Durrell’s poetics account for the necessary back-and-forth reading that connects prose and poetry, the fictional and the lyrical, the descriptive and the abstract. Poetry excerpts, extracts from his residence books, novels, and essays highlight not only Durrell’s complex literary strategies but also the ontological quest of a writer who, although never at home with the world he lived in, strove to create a life-world, what semiologists call the “Umwelt.”

Beyond the Battles

Author : C. P. Hillen
Publisher : Cynthia Hillen
ISBN 13 : 9781600471094
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Battles written by C. P. Hillen and published by Cynthia Hillen. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston meets Alabama in London and sparks fly when a southern belle and a staunch abolitionist become roommates at an exclusive academy for young women. Convictions and loyalties are challenged as they make their way through the ensuing chaos and destruction of the Civil War. In a world turned upside down, can they find hope and happiness?

The Collected Poems

Author : C. P. Cavafy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191526568
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems written by C. P. Cavafy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy

Author : C.P. Cavafy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375700897
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy written by C.P. Cavafy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost. No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus on his return to Ithaca or confronting the poet with the ghosts of his youth, these verses brilliantly make the historical personal—and vice versa. To his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, Cavafy brings the historian’s assessing eye along with the poet’s compassionate heart. After more than a decade of work and study, Mendelsohn—a classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world—gives readers full access to the genius of Cavafy’s verse: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, and strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. Complete with the Unfinished Poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died—a remarkable, hitherto unknown discovery that remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades—and with an in-depth introduction and a helpful commentary that situates each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, this revelatory translation is a cause for celebration: the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.

The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great: Third Extended Edition

Author : Andrew Michael Chugg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0955679095
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great: Third Extended Edition written by Andrew Michael Chugg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers a connection between a Macedonian funerary sculpture found in the foundations of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice and the sarcophagus of an Egyptian Pharaoh shipped to London from Alexandria in 1801. Traces their trails to show that both seem to come from Alexander's tomb in Alexandria. Now it is revealed that the sculptural relief was fitted to the sarcophagus, confirming the theory. The author writes: "When I embarked upon the deck of this Odyssey, it seemed to me that shipwreck was my eventual destiny, but now beyond the raging, roiling sea, I have glimpsed the shore of verdant Valinor unveiled before me. Though I may yet come to grief upon some reef, washed by waves of disbelief, I voyage on to vindication, my vessel's ordained destination. With greatness grazing on the verge of rediscovery, we may surely see the resolution of this mystery. So let my sail now be unfurled to catch the wind and win the world Alexander's long-lost legacy, the parted parts of his shattered tomb and battered body."

Wanderjahr

Author : Richard Bevis
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460205634
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Wanderjahr written by Richard Bevis and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of two young men, fresh from school, as they travel in search of knowledge about the world and themselves. Trying to reach Africa on motor scooters, they nearly circle the Mediterranean. The impulses and questions they have are archetypal: similar tales can be told by and of many others who have undertaken their own quests at the turning point between formal education and the decisions that will shape the rest of their lives....

The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great

Author : Andrew Michael Chugg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great written by Andrew Michael Chugg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research reveals hitherto unrecognised evidence and provides a fresh insight into the disappearance of The Tomb of Alexander the Great. The disappearance and fate of the tomb of Alexander the Great in Alexandria is among the most momentous and tantalising of all the mysteries we have inherited from the ancient world. Generations of archaeologists and historians have sucumbed to the allure of the quest; yet have failed to find convincing answers. Now with the dawning of the 21st century new research is revealing hitherto unrecognised evidence and providing fresh insights, creating a frisson of renewed excitement in academic circles. This new title combines a detailed chronological account of the history of the tomb with the first publication of new discoveries. Finally, an intriguing new possibility is explored regarding the whereabouts of Alexander's mummified remains.

The Stories from Ancient Egypt - 10 Novels in One Volume

Author : Georg Ebers
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3780 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Stories from Ancient Egypt - 10 Novels in One Volume written by Georg Ebers and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 3780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you thiscollection of historical adventures and romance novels set in ancient Egypt. This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: An Egyptian Princess Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt Homo Sum (Novel about 4th century A.D. Christianity on the Sinai Peninsula) The Sisters The Emperor (Hadrian) Serapis, a Romance(Tale of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria) The Bride of the Nile Cleopatra Arachne A Thorny Path (Per Aspera) The Story of My Life, from Childhood to Manhood– Autobiography