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Record Nr.

UNINA9910854296903321

Titolo

Hellenistic Alexandria: celebrating 24 centuries : papers presented at the conference held on December 13-15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

ISBN

1-78969-067-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Archaeopress archaeology

Altri autori (Persone)

ZerefosChristos S

VardinoyannisMarianna V

Disciplina

932.102

Soggetti

Civilization

Archäologische Stätte

Hellenismus

Conference papers and proceedings.

Konferenzschrift2017Athen

Alexandria (Egypt) Civilization Congresses

Egypt Alexandria

Alexandria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Hellenistic Alexandria: Celebrating 24 Centuries' presents the proceedings of a conference held at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, on December 13-15, 2017, and includes high-level dialogues and philosophical discussions between international experts on Hellenistic Alexandria. The goal was to celebrate the 24 centuries which have elapsed since its foundation and the beginning of the Library and the Museum of Alexandria. The conference was divided into two parts, to include in the first part archaeology, history, philosophy, literature, art, culture and legal issues and in the second part science, medicine, technology and environment. A total of 28 original and peer-reviewed articles point to the importance of the brilliantly-original ideas that emerged during the Hellenistic age and the curious modernity of the



whole atmosphere of the time. The range of presented topics covers a variety of new data on the foundation of Alexandria to comparison between Ptolemaic Alexandria and Ptolemaic Greece through philosophy, culture and drama to the forgotten revolution of science, medicine and the prevailing climatological and geophysical conditions throughout the Hellenistic Period.