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  INDEX

  Academy, Plato’s founding of

  Achillas

  Address to Origen (Thaumaturgus)

  Adonais (Shelley)

  Adonis (Ptolemy )

  Advancement of Learning, The (Bacon)

  Aegyptica

  Aelian

  Aeliopile

  Against Aristarchus (Cleanthes)

  Against Callimachus’s Library Lists (Aristophanes of Byzantium)

  Against Celsus. See Contra Celsus (Origen of Alexandria)

  Agathocles (heir of King Lysimachos)

  Agathocles (of Ptolemy ’s reign)

  Agothoclea

  Aigai

  Aitia (Callimachus)

  Al-Baladhuri

  Alchemical Notes (Newton)

  Alchemy

  Alexander

  Alexander (patriarch)

  Alexander, Tiberius Julius

  Alexander Lysimachus

  Alexander or Cassandra (Lycophron)

  Alexander the Great

  and Aristotl
e

  birth and early life of

  conquests of

  founding of Alexandria

  funeral procession of

  last days and death of

  as liberator of Egypt

  as living god

  and tyranny as choice of government

  visit to Ammon temple at Siwa

  war among heirs of

  Alexander the Great (Rufus)

  Alexandria

  Amr’s conquest and destruction of

  in Augustus Caesar’s time

  and Caracalla’s fury

  chronology of

  design of

  dynasties of

  and early Christianity. See Christianity

  and Euclid’s mathematics

  factors bringing down Ptolemaic dynasty

  founding of

  Jewish population of. See Jews

  Julius Caesar’s taking of

  layout and design of

  library of. See Library of Alexandria

  medicine, anatomy, and physiology in early

  museum of. See Museum of Alexandria

  as new capital of Egypt

  periods of

  philosophical underpinnings of

  as Ptolemy’s choice for capital of Egypt

  in seventh century AD

  Alexandria and Her Schools (Kingley)

  Alexandrian Library, The (Parsons)

  Alexandrine War

  burning of Alexandrian library

  final battle and death of Ptolemy taking of Pharos

  Algebraic formulations of Diophantus of Alexandria

  Almagest (Claudius Ptolemy)

  Ambrose of Alexandria

  Ammon

  as divine father of Alexander the Great

  temple of

  Ammonius (Nitrian monk)

  Ammonius (priest)

  Ammonius Saccas

  Ammon temple

  Amr ibn al-Asi

  Amyntas , King

  Anabasis (Arrian)

  Anachoresis

  Analogeticists

  Anatomy, physiology, and medicine

  establishment of school of

  Galen. See Galen

  Anaximander

  Andromachus

  Andronicus Palaeologus, Emperor

  Andronicus of Cyrrhus

  Anti-Christian purges

  Antigonids

  Anti-Jewish pogroms

  Antikythera mechanism

  Antikythera wreck

  Antiochus Theos

  Antiochus

  Antiquities (Varro)

 

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