One of the great seats of learning and repositories of knowledge in the ancient world, Alexandria, and the great school of thought to which it gave its name, made a vital contribution to the development of intellectual and cultural heritage in the Occidental world. This book brings together twenty papers delivered at a symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum on the subject of Alexandria and Alexandrianism. Subjects range from “The Library of Alexandria and Ancient Egyptian Learning” and “Alexander’s Alexandria” to “Alexandria and the Origins of Baroque Architecture.”

With nearly two hundred illustrations, this handsome volume presents some of the world’s leading scholars on the continuing influence and fascination of this great city. The distinguished contributors include Peter Green, R. R. R. Smith, and the late Bernard Bothmer.

• Foreword
  John Walsh and Thomas F. Reese
• INTRODUCTION
  • Alexander’s Alexandria
    Peter Green
• THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
  • Egyptian Influence on Daily Life in Ancient Alexandria
    Henri Riad
  • “All Army Boots and Uniforms?”: Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt
    Diana Delia
  • City Planning?
    Gunter Grimm
  • Cults in Hellenistic Alexandria
    Lilly Kahil
  • Body and Machine: Interactions between Medicine, Mechanics, and Philosophy in Early Alexandria
    Heinrich von Staden
• ARTS OF HELLENISTIC ALEXANDRIA: GREEK AND EGYPTIAN CONTRIBUTIONS
  • Alexandria and the Origins of Baroque Architecture
    Judith McKenzie
  • From the Double Crown to the Double Pediment
    John Onians
  • From Hellenistic Polychromy of Sculptures to Roman Mosaics
    W. A. Daszewski
  • Ein spatromischer bemalter Sarg aus Agypten im J. Paul Getty Museum
    Klaus Parlasca
  • Roots and Contacts: Aspects of Alexandrian Craftsmanship
    Michael Pfrommer
  • Pharaonic Egyptian Elements in the Decorative Arts of Alexandria during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
    Robert Steven Bianchi
  • Ptolemaic Portraits: Alexandrian Types, Egyptian Versions
    R. R. R. Smith
  • Hellenistic Elements in Egyptian Sculpture of the Ptolemaic Period Bernard V. Bothmer
  • The Alexandrian Style: A Mirage?
    Andrew Stewart
  • Is There an Alexandrian Style-What Is Egyptian about It?
    Arielle P. Kozloff
• THE CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF ALEXANDRIA
  • Late Antique Alexandria
    G. W. Bowersock
  • Medieval Alexandria: Some Evidence from the Cairo Genizah Documents
    Abraham L. Udovitch
  • Alexandrian Culture in Modern Times: Egyptian Identity and Cosmopolitan Aspects
    Mohamed Ghoneim
• Reigns of the Ptolemies
• Map of early Ptolemaic Alexandria

Kenneth Hamma is associate curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum.