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AFTERWARD: The Lasting Legacy

ALEXANDRIA TODAY


CLEOPATRA'S LEGACY:


  • --- Cleopatra's Needle (London, England, UK)
    Short overview of "Cleopatra's Needle", an obelisk of the 18th/19th dynasty now located on the Thames Embankment in London, close to the Embankment underground station. The Obelisk was actually constructed for Tuthmose III. It is carved with Hieroglyphics praising Tuthmose and commemorating his third Sed festival. Later inscriptions were added by Ramesses II to commemorate his victories. Moved to Alexandria by the Romans (not Cleopatra) it was presented as a gift to Queen Victoria by the Government of Egypt in the 19th century. From the Akhet Internet site.


    • Cleopatra as Literature Theme & Subject
  • --- The Legend Of Good Women: I. The Legend Of Cleopatra -- by Geoffrey Chaucer, ca 1300
    Incipit Legenda Cleopatrie, Martiris, Egipti Regine.
    from: The Online Medieval and Classical Library [Release #25]. A collection of Medieval and Classical texts (this file 7384 bytes, 14Feb97)
  • --- The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra -- by William Shakespeare (1607)
    "Friends, Romans, Countrymen ....." The bard handles history's tragic couple. The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1607) from MIT's site.
  • --- Cleopatra on the Big Screen (from The Internet Movie Database)
    Did you know there have been over 30 movies since 1912 with "Cleopatra" in the title? What about the other 10 titles made for TV or video? Find out here!
  • --- Cléopâtre de Virgile à Mankiewicz. Origine et évolution d'un mythe -- par Renaud Calvat
    Bulletin de l'Arelam, No. XXXII, Jul 1995, pp. 43-57
  • --- Cleopatra (1934)
    All the credits about this 1934 black and white movie adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw classic.
    Synopsis:
    This film classic details the life of the ruler of ancient Egypt. Claudette Colbert stars as the captivating and powerful Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt in this classic Hollywood film. When Julius Caesar, the leader of the Roman Empire, succumbs to the charms of the sultry Cleopatra, he creates a scandal big enough to shake the marble pillars of Rome. The ruler pays dearly for his romance, for the outraged Roman Senate repudiates him -- and the fickle Cleopatra decides to protect her interests by bestowing her affections on her former lover's rival, Marc Antony. Shot in the grandiose, epic style of vintage Hollywood. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best Cinematography.
    Order this video from Amazon.com
  • --- Cleopatra: Images from the Movies and Elsewhere
    From Gavin's Egyptomania pages. Several stills from the 1963 epic Cleopatra with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton as well as from the 1934 classic Anthony & Cleopatra based on the Shaw play [film dates are misattributed on this web page.] Several other curious images of Cleopatra Egyptomania
  • --- The Cleopatra Costume on Stage and in Film
    by C. David Claudon, copyright 1997


    • Cleopatra as Art Image
  • --- "Kleopatra" Krazy Kat Strip of May 4th, 1919
    "There was a Day, in Ancient Egypt, when "Kleopatra Kat", Siren of the Nile, held enslaved the Heart of a Noble Roman Rodent -- "Marcantonni Maus". Read on Krazy Kat lovers .........
    Full Sunday Strip tells the story that explains the mystery behind the "Brick" for Krazy Kat.
    (Krazy Kat is still copyrighted by King Features, Inc.)
  • --- Asterix und Kleopatra
    Billed as "The greatest story ever drawn. 14 litres of india ink, 30 brushes, 62 soft pencils, 1 hard pencil, 27 rubbers [erasers], 1984 sheets of paper, 16 typewriter ribbons, 2 typewriters, 366 pints of beer went into its creation!" See also http://www.kinopolis.ch/filminfo/asterixkleopatra.html . For more on the comic Astrix see http://www.comedix.de/englischframe.html
  • --- Cleopatra Lost and Found
    Statue: The Death of Cleopatra, modeled ca. 1874 - 1875, carved 1876 (Italian marble), 63 x 31 1/4 x 46 in. Gift of the Historical Society of Forest Park, Illinois. You will need the Quicktime Plug in to view the museum panorama. For some more on conservation of this statue see also http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/lewis/whathap.html and http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/exhibits/lewis/new/fate.html


    • Flowers
  • --- Roses: hybrid tea Kleopatra®
    According to the breeder W. Kordes Söhne 1994, the conspicuous colour is not loud, but decent and the scent is moderate, and not "still as sweet."


    • HYPATIA'S LEGACY
  • --- Hypatia, The Stage Play by Gerald E. Jones
    Hypatia is this author's speculation about what might have happened in fifth century Egypt. Key events depicted in the play are based on historical accounts, including the gory details of Hypatia's demise, although the sources are sketchy, conflicting, and highly biased.
  • --- Hypatia Bibliography Project
    Hypatia is the name of a directory and searchable database of research workers in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics, and a library of their papers.

    • Panoramie d'Alexandrie avec la Colone Pompee


    THE CITY'S LEGACY
  • --- Historical Maps of Alexandria
    Two large JPG maps are presented: a 1699 AD map by Christian Melchien, and a less accurate 16th century map.
  • --- http://stax.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/MiddleEast/Photo/Alex.html
    The Middle East Department of the University of Chicago Library maintains an archive of early photographs of the Middle East. These photographs have been scanned and made available on the World Wide Web. Use the link to view the images of 19th Century Alexandria. The Middle East Department manages an archive of photographs, most of which date to the second half of the nineteenth century. The vast majority of these are albumen-based photographs (the principal technique used during these years), supplemented by a few gelatin-based photographs (the precursor of the modern technique), and a few photochrome prints (early twentieth century dyed prints, producing a "color" photographic image).
    [Images © 1996 Middle East Department. Joseph Regenstein Library. The University of Chicago.]
  • --- http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/gri/4p19_1.html
    Checklist of Nineteenth-century "studio photographs" of Egypt in the Archive of the Griffith Institute. Part 1: Alexandria to Cairo, including Islamic monuments. (274 photographs total; 30 of Alexandria). Compiled by Jaromir Malek and Elizabeth Miles.
  • --- ALEXANDRIA (Arab. 'al-'iskandariyya)
    Encyclopedia of the Orient thumbnail sketch and timeline for Alexandria. Includes one small, not-too-great map. © 1997 CiAS.
  • --- http://silicon.montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr:8001/cgi-bin/PROG?Alexandrie
    Comptoir Philatélique d'Égypte, Alexandrie (SIRA). More Nineteenth-century "studio photographs" of Egypt.
  • --- Alexandria's Pea Soup
    Pollution of all kinds is strangling one of the Mediterranean’s most beautiful ports - Alexandria - spelling disaster for fishermen, tourists and underwater archaeologists.
  • --- Submarine archaeology and coastal management: Steps Towards an Integrated Solution in Alexandria, Egypt
    An overview of the International Workshop on Submarine Archaeology and Coastal Management, held in Alexandria, Egypt, from 7-11 April 1997. This meeting brought together experts from a wide range of disciplines. Underwater archaeologists, antiquity scholars and historians debated issues with coastal engineers, oceanographers and remote-sensing experts and exchanged views with urban planners, museum directors and legal experts. The Workshop was sponsored and organized by UNESCO, the University of Alexandria and the Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities.
  • --- The Society for Underwater Exploration: Lost City Of Alexandria Unveiled
    The society has launched a Web site that chronicles the latest underwater discoveries in the ancient, Lost City of Alexandria. The launch of the site places special focus on revealing the latest discoveries involving Cleopatra's Palace in the lost city and the excavations of the wreckage of sunken ships from Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet in nearby Aboukir. (As reported at exn.ca, a presentation of the Discovery Channel Canada at URL http://www.exn.ca/html/templates/exntv-newsbytes.cfm?ID=19981102-06)


    • PHAROS' LEGACY
  • --- The lighthouse at Alexandria, seventh wonder of the ancient world
    LEICA GPS PINPOINTS THE CENTER OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
    21 Oct 1996: A one page press release on Leica's Global Positioning System equipment used to help pinpoint the Pharos. No images. Press release text: No.G-Z97010e Leica AG CH-9435 Heerbrugg (Switzerland) For immediate release Heerbrugg. Text available in English, French and German.
  • --- Discovery of an ancient world - Alexandria: LEICA GPS pinpoints the center of the ancient world
    For a millennium and a half, the world’s first and tallest lighthouse that stood offshore on the island of Pharos at Alexandria continued to tell seafarers their position by day and night. Guiding them to the entrance of the greatest harbour in antiquity. Parts of the 135m high structure, admired as the seventh wonder of the ancient world, have now been discovered in the sea off Pharos. Leica GPS equipment is helping the Centre des Études Alexandrines (CEA) to survey and map the exact position of its remains Text available in English, French and German.


    • LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA - BIBLIOTECA ALEXANDRINA'S LEGACY
  • --- BIBLIOTECA ALEXANDRINA, the modern Library of Alexandria
    Information on the modern Library of Alexandria, the BIBLIOTECA ALEXANDRINA (BA), including the new BA web site, is placed together with the information on its Ptolemaic progenitor.
  • --- The ALEXANDRIA Project
    The ALEXANDRIA Project's goal is like the goal of the ancient Alexandrians-- to assemble a collection of the greatest works the human mind has offered. The greatest literature, greatest works of art, musical compositions, the most important scientific discoveries, works of philosophy, technology, engineering, the story of human history, the lessons we have learned about sociology, human nature, and governance.


    • MUSEUM
  • --- The Graeco-Roman Museum
    Alexandria's Greco-Roman Museum was first built in 1892 as a small building located on Horreya Road. In 1895 it was transferred to its present site near Gamal Abdul Nasser Road. It started with eleven galleries, and has been gradually enlarged via sevral expansions.
  • --- Museums -- Alexandria
    Museums -- Alexandria provides the addresses and hours of operation for all the major musea: The Greco-Roman Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Aquarium & Marine Life Museum, Cavafy Museum, Hussein Sobhy Museum of Fine Arts, Royal Jewellery Museum.
  • --- Underwater Cleopatra Museum Planned
    2 Nov 1998: OCEANSP@CE Issue No. 87. Egypt's newest tourist destination may well be underwater - archaeologists want to build a museum under the sea showcasing the ruins of a sunken city where Cleopatra had a palace. A proposed network of transparent tunnels on the sea floor would allow tourists to view the third-century ruins of the royal court of Alexandria without ever removing them from their watery resting place.
  • 30 Oct 1998: With all the hubbub about Cleopatra etc., once again Egyptian archaeological authorities are talking about an underwater museum, according to an AP story in the Boston Globe.
    (Report courtesy of EXPLORATOR)
  • --- Sunken antiquities deserve underwater museum
    By Hoda Osman, Special to the Middle East Times
  • Egypt to establish museum for sunken artifacts of the Mediterranean: see
    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/travel/DailyNews/alexandria_museum981029.html

    http://www.seattletimes.com/news/nation-world/html98/altcleo_102998.html

    http://www.outsidemag.com/news/archive97/971111t3.html



    • NAPOLEON'S EGYPTIAN LEGACY
  • --- Alexandria, Egypt: Discovery of Napoleon's Lost Fleet
    (From Athena Review: Recent Finds in Archaeology) On May 19, 1798 the French general Napoleon Bonaparte, in a typically ambitous campaign designed, ultimately, to conquer British India, set sail for Egypt with a fleet of 350 ships and 50,000 men. Napoleon’s plans of conquering Egypt, however, were short-lived. On August 1, 1798, after a summer of searching, British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, commanding 14 gunships, found Napoleon’s fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay, Egypt, about 10 miles from Alexandria. In the fight which followed, known as the Battle of the Nile, several French ships including Napoleon’s flagship L’Oriente were sunk. Two hundred years later, underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio led excavators in the exploration of the ill-fated fleet’s resting place. As part of an extensive project examining the ancient harbor of Alexandria, they have located many artifacts and learned new information on the battle itself.
  • --- L'Égypte Conquise
    Napoleonic Medals celebrating the Egyptian Campaign. In addition this site offers the original sketches by Dennon for the three Egyptian-related medals: Lower Egypt Conquered, Upper Egypt Conquered, and Egypt Conquered (compare this to the actual image).
    This is just a small part of the very, very usefull information on Napoleonic Era Medals, Coins, Paper Money and Emphemera at http://medals.napoleonicwars.com . A very informative site
  • --- Napoleon's flagship 'L'Orient' in the harbour of Alexandria
    The Telegraph has the best coverage of the discovery of Napoleon's flagship 'L'Orient' in the harbour of Alexandria -- I'm not quite sure why this is major news now (since it was first reported last summer, as I recall), but there's good coverage of the explosion of the ship, what they found, etc. The Telegraph piece also has a couple of good links at the start of the article with more details. (From EXPLORATOR).
  • --- Alexandria, Egypt: Discovery of Napoleon's Lost Fleet
    (From Athena Review: Recent Finds in Archaeology) On May 19, 1798 the French general Napoleon Bonaparte, in a typically ambitous campaign designed, ultimately, to conquer British India, set sail for Egypt with a fleet of 350 ships and 50,000 men. Napoleon’s plans of conquering Egypt, however, were short-lived. On August 1, 1798, after a summer of searching, British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, commanding 14 gunships, found Napoleon’s fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay, Egypt, about 10 miles from Alexandria. In the fight which followed, known as the Battle of the Nile, several French ships including Napoleon’s flagship L’Oriente were sunk. Two hundred years later, underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio led excavators in the exploration of the ill-fated fleet’s resting place. As part of an extensive project examining the ancient harbor of Alexandria, they have located many artifacts and learned new information on the battle itself.
  • --- Napoleon's Fleet Found
    The latest discoveries from the harbour of Alexandria include the remains of Napoleon's fleet lost during the Battle of the Nile on Aug. 1, 1798. See the coverage by:
    Mike Murphy in the Times of London or
    Tarek El-Tablawy's AP story via the Seattle Times.


  • --- A Magnificent Find
    (6-12 Aug 1998, Al-Ahram Issue 389). By Nevine El-Aref. Six kilometres off the Abu Qir coastline, and 12 metres underwater, lies the wreckage of Napoleon Bonaparte's flagship, L'Orient, along with two other ships, La Serieuse and L'Artemise.
  • --- Nelson and the Nile
    From Military History Magazine. The sudden swoop of a British fleet commanded by the bold young Vice Adm. Sir Horatio Nelson stunned the French naval force in Aboukir Bay in 1798, crushing General Napoleon Bonaparte's dreams for an Eastern empire. By John Woolford
  • --- Napoleon in Egypt
    Archaeology Magazine May 1999 issue with a summary of Bob Brier's article on Napoleon in Egypt.
  • --- Napoleon in Egypt or egomaniac on the loose
    by Cory Runyan (Written for History 310 and Professor John Lynn, Univ of Illinois, 10 Apr 1996). An essay detailing Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. From "The Napoleon Series", a website and electronic magazine dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte and his times. It is a place where people interested in Napoleonic history can meet to exchange ideas and knowledge or just to talk about their favourite subject.
  • --- Egypt retrieves sunken warships of Napoleon’s fleet in Mediterranean
    (28 Jun 1999): Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni will tomorrow give the go-ahead for a massive operation to retrieve the sunken naval pieces of Napoleon's fleet in the Mediterranean.



    • C. P. CAVAFY'S LEGACY
  • --- http://users.hol.gr:80/~barbanis/cavafy/
    Constantine P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933)
    Cavafy, one of the most prominent Greek poets, was born on April 29, 1863 and died on the same date in 1933 in Alexandria. This is the most comprehensive site dedicated to the works of C.P. Cavafy.
  • --- ITHACA - A Tribute to Constantine P. Cavafy - (1863 - 1933)
    Includes some photos of Cavafy. This site uses many of George Barbanis' translations of Cavafy as well as a biography by Edmund Keeley.
  • --- Some poems from Constantine P. Cavafy
    Poems presented: Ithaka, The City, Body Remember, Sensual Pleasures, In The Harbor, Their Beginning
  • --- The Greek Poems of C.P. Cavafy As Translated by Memas Kolaitis
    Just over a dozen verses reproduced from The Greek Poems of C.P. Cavafy As Translated by Memas Kolaitis. Copyright © 1989 The Estate of Memas Kolaitis. All rights reserved. Published by Aristide D. Caratzas.
  • --- Los sonetos de Cavafis (Traducción y nota de Rafael Herrera Montero)
    In Spanish (from CLARIN AÑO III- Nº15 MAYO-JUNIO 1998) Revista de Nueva Literatura. Spanish versions: COMERCIANTE ALEJANDRINO, HOSPITALIDAD DE LÁGIDA, EPITAFIO, ESPECTADOR DESCONTENTO, and MUERTE DE UN GENERAL.
  • --- Two Poems by Constantine P. Cavafy
    Two English translation of poems by CP Cavafy (trans. from the Greek by Rae Dalven): Hidden Things and Picture of a 23-year-old Youth Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amature.
  • --- The First Step - by C PCavafy
    English, Trans., Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard. From: The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy, Chatto & Windus (London, 1975).
  • --- Five Poems by Cavafy
    English translations by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard of: Ithaka, Che fece ... il gran rifiuto, Thermopylae, The City and Exiles.
  • --- Poetry of Constantine Cavafy
    Poseidonians, As much as you can, Thermopylae, In Church, On an Italian Shore, and Manuel Comninos. Translated by E. Keeley and P. Sherrard
  • --- STIGMES the magazine of Crete - Cavafy in Alexandria
    In Greek (requires Greek fonts): STIGMES the magazine of Crete - Cavafy in Alexandria.
  • --- Cafe Cavafy
    A music drama based on the life and times of the "father" of Greek Modernism, Constantine Cavafy. Written, designed and directed by Metaxas Mastrosavas. Music by Arthur Giannopoulos.

    • Articles and Guides on the Coins and Stamps of Egypt
    (After 1800 CE)



    Bibliographic Notes:
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    • ALEXANDRIA TODAY

    FAREWELL ALEXANDRIA Book Cover
  • FAREWELL ALEXANDRIA by Derek Adie Flower

    A novel of epic proportions based on Derek Flower's knowledge of Middle Eastern affairs and international big business. Set against a changing backdrop of pre-war Egypt, of Paris, London and New York in the 1960s and 1970s, terrorism in the Middle East and famine in Ethiopia, all the aspects of human strengths and frailties are brought to life in this international three-generation saga where a dramatic climax redimensions a man's destiny.

    See several Reviews of this book

    Pharos Publications, Ltd

    • NAPOLEON'S EGYPTIAN LEGACY

  • --- Nelson and the Nile: The Naval War against Bonaparte 1798
    by Brian Lavery
    The Battle of the Nile, fought on the 1 August 1798, was Nelson's first great victory and dealt a fatal blow to Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions in the Middle East. But the battle itself was only the decisive event in a campaign of many months, upon the outcome of which depended the domination of the Mediterranean and the whole strategic situation in Europe. In this book, published to mark the bicentenary of the campaign, Brian Lavery places the Battle of the Nile in its full strategic context, showing the interplay of military and political factors that sent Nelson's squadron into the Mediterranean in pursuit of the powerful French invasion fleet. This was also Nelson's first independent fleet command, and the author shows the development of his command style and the forging of the esprit de corps which was later to triumph at Trafalgar.
    Publisher: United States Naval Institute; ISBN: 155750640X ; Hardback, 352 pages (July 1998). Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x 9.59 x 6.90
    Order This book from Amazon.com or just read the reviews provided.
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