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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)

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