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.
zlib_text: Kingsley on Alexandria and her Schools v. 07.21, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 10 November 2017 
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  Alexandria and her Schools 
   
   
  
  ALEXANDRIA AND HER SCHOOLS 
  PREFACE 
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  Four Lectures by Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), English Novelist, 
  delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, in February, 
  1854, at the commencement of the Crimean War. 
   
   
  Contents 
  Preface 
  3 
  Lecture 1. The Ptolemaic Era, part 1 
  8 
  Lecture 2. The Ptolemaic Era, part 2 
  21 
  Lecture 3. Neoplatonism 
  35 
  Lecture 4. The Cross and the Crescent 
  52 
   
   
   
  
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  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 
  wh