title: Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints) (Vols 1-3)
author:  P. M. Fraser 
description: A sweeping history of Alexandria's first three centuries. Volume 1 tells the story, in 800 pages; volume 2 is an 1100-page compilation of the sources; volume 3 contains indices.
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  Alexandria and her Schools
  
  
    
    
  [Preface  
    
  ](Alexandria%20and%20her%20Schools_split_001.html#filepos1500)[LECTURE I--THE
  PTOLEMAIC ERA  
    
  ](Alexandria%20and%20her%20Schools_split_001.html#filepos20488)[LECTURE II--
  THE PTOLEMAIC ERA (Continued.)  
    
  ](Alexandria%20and%20her%20Schools_split_001.html#filepos65051)[LECTURE III--
  NEOPLATONISM  
    
  ](Alexandria%20and%20her%20Schools_split_001.html#filepos115727)[LECTURE IV--
  THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Alexandria and her Schools
  
  
  ### Charles Kingsley
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I should not have presumed to choose for any lectures of mine such a
  
  
  subject as that which I have tried to treat in this book. The subject
  
  
  was chosen by the Institution where the lectures were delivered. Still
  
  
  less should I have presumed to print them of my own accord, knowing how
  