Hellenistic Alexandria : celebrating 24 centuries : papers presented at the conference held on December 13-15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens /: celebrating 24 centuries : papers presented at the conference held on December 13-15 2017 at Acropolis Museum, Athens. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christos S. Zerefos and Marianna V. Vardinoyannis.
• Editors: Zerefos, C. S (Christos S.); Vardinoyannis, Marianna V
• Contents: Opening of Hellenistic Alexandria Conference; Wednesday 13 December 2017; Address by Mrs Marianna V. Vardinoyannis; Address by the Honorable Dr Mostafa El Feki; Address by Professor Ashraf Farrag; Address by Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis; Why Hellenistic Alexandria?; Address by Professor Christos Zerefos; Address by His Beatitude Theodoros II; Address by H.E. Prokopios Pavlopoulos; Part 1: Archaeology, History, Philosophy, Literature, Art, Cultural Heritage and Legal Issues; New data concerning the foundation of Alexandria – by Jean-Yves Empereur; The navy of Ptolemaic Alexandria – by Emad Khalil; Twenty years of underwater archaeological and geophysical surveys in Alexandria by the Greek Mission (1998-2017) – by Harry E. Tzalas; Macedonian elements in Alexandria – by Angeliki Kottaridi; The early Greek presence in Alexandria – by M. Abd El–Maksoud, A. Abd El–Fattah and M. Seif El–Din; Italian archaeology in Alexandria – by Mohamed Kenawi and Giorgia Marchiori; 'Crumbs from the Table'— archaeological remains of Hellenistic Alexandria – by Grzegorz Majcherek; Believing in afterlife in Hellenistic and Roman Alexandria. A study of some funerary paintings – by Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets; Graeco-Egyptian elements in Alexandrian architectural mouldings – by Mona Haggag; Alexandria in the 'Corpus of Ptolemaic inscriptions' – by Kyriakos Savvopoulos; From Macedonia to Ptolemaic Alexandria: the cult of Dionysos Pseudanor – by Emmanuel Voutiras; Hellenistic drama and Alexandrian culture – by Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou; The Alexandrian cradle of philological science – by Theodore D. Papanghelis; Egyptian and Egyptiote literature as a bridge between two cultures – by Shaker Moussa; From Alexandria to Venice: Remembrances of Alexandria in the cultural treasures of Venice – by Chryssa Maltezou; The destruction of libraries in the course of history and the international law on the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict – by Artemis Papathanassiou; Is the possession of the Parthenon Marbles lawful according to the contemporary English law? – by Christos Mylonopoulos; Part 2: Science, Medicine, Technology and Environment; A very brief introduction to Hellenistic Alexandrian technology – by T. P. Tassios; Royal catasterisms: Arsinoe II and Berenice II translated to the stars – by Dee Clayman; Antikythera Mechanism as evidence for Hellenistic technology excellence – by Xenophon Moussas; Gigantic and structurally sound: the lighthouse on the island of Pharos and the minarets of western Islam – by Paolo Vitti; Philon's automatic servant. A reconstruction with a description of S. Economopoulos' air-valve mechanism – by Manolis Korres; The Hellenistic mathematician Archimedes and his Renaissance admirer Kepler – by Eberhard Knobloch; Ancient Greek optical instruments and the Pharos of Alexandria: insights on its functions and technology – by Moussas, Vitti and Zerefos; Space – Time – Matter – Motion: John Philoponus: a prelude to Galileo, Descartes and Newton – by Emmanuel Floratos; Hellenistic medicine and the Library of Alexandria: its influence in the west and the east – by George P. Chrousos; Palaeoclimatic conditions during the Hellenistic period in the Eastern Mediterranean – by J. Luterbacher and E. Xoplaki; A tentative methodology of sea-level change based on fish tanks from Hellenistic Alexandria, vis-a-vis, the submerged el Hassan rock provide a new look for subsidence estimates – by N. Evelpidou, C. Repapis, H. Tzalas and C. Zerefos.
• Publisher Details: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 296 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 932.102; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Social Science -- Archaeology; Alexandria (Egypt) -- History -- Congresses; Alexandria (Egypt) -- Civilization -- Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789690675
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2019).
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