* Andron, Cosmin ( 2008 ), " Ammonios of Alexandria ", The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, eds.

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

* Pope of Alexandria, being the Diocesan Bishop of the Great and Ancient Metropolis of Alexandria, that is in Alexandria and the metropolitan province of Greater Cairo.

Ancient Greek bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, 3rd-2nd century BC, found in Alexandria, Egypt.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria ( in Ancient Greek, ὁ Φάρος της Ἀλεξανδρείας ), was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos at Alexandria, Egypt.

The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was the largest and most significant library of the ancient world.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

* Remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria ( one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ) are toppled by a series of earthquakes.

Alexandria, the second largest city of Egypt, was a flourishing city in the Ancient era, but declined during the Middle Ages.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, designed by Sostratus of Cnidus and built during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter served as the city's landmark, and later, lighthouse.

The word " necromancy " is adapted from Late Latin necromantia, itself borrowed from post-Classical Greek νεκρομαντεία ( nekromanteía ), a compound of Ancient Greek νεκρός ( nekrós ), " dead body ", and μαντεία ( manteía ), " prophecy or divination "; this compound form was first used by Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century CE.

Ibycus () ( floruit: 2nd half of 6th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

* Dimitar Y. Dimitrov, " Sinesius of Cyrene and the Christian Neoplatonism: Patterns of Religious and Cultural Symbiosis ," in Mostafa El-Abbadi and Omnia Fathallah ( eds ), What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?

The Ancient Library of Alexandria, an early form of information retrieval | information storage and retrieval.

Category: Ancient Alexandria in art and culture

They were educated in the Hellenistic culture of Alexandria and Roman culture, to a degree in Ancient Egyptian culture and particularly in the traditions of Judaism, in the study of Jewish traditional literature and in Greek philosophy.

In the words of Roberta Reeder, " His poetry is erudite and the themes range from Ancient Greece and Alexandria to modern-day Petersburg.

Category: Ancient Alexandria in art and culture

In Ancient Egypt, the city was known as Tamiat, but it became less important in the Hellenic period after the construction of Alexandria.

The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

Notable for the theories that humans are social animals, and that the polis ( Ancient Greek city state ) existed to bring about the good life appropriate to such animals.

Ancient authors also say that Solon regulated pederastic relationships in Athens ; this has been presented as an adaption of custom to the new structure of the polis.

The word comes from the Latin politia (" civil administration "), which itself derives from the Ancient Greek πόλις, for polis (" city ").

Eretria (;, Eretria, literally " city of the rowers ") was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea, south of Chalcis, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboean Gulf.

The basic unit of politics in Ancient Greece was the polis, sometimes translated as city-state.

In the works of Ancient Greek philosophers, the principal meaning of politeia appears to be: " how a polis is run ; constitution ".

In sorting through the remaining crumbles of residential architectural complexes found in sites such as Zagora and Olynthos archeologists have been able to explore the social dynamics of Ancient Greek society as it developed into the polis or city-state.

Ancient Greece in the eighth through fourth centuries BC, between the Greek Dark Ages and the Hellenistic period, is referred to as Hellenic Greece.

For example the terms Purana, Sanatana Dharma, and the emphasis on the antiquity of the Ancient Egyptian sources of the Hellenistic Mystery religions.

Ancient Greek was widely known to scholars, but the details of its use in the Hellenistic period as a government language in Ptolemaic Egypt were not familiar: large scale discoveries of Greek papyri were a long way in the future.

Syncretism functioned as a feature of Hellenistic Ancient Greek religion although only outside of Greece.

* A History of Ancient Philosophy: The systems of the Hellenistic Age by Giovanni Reale, ( translated by John R. Catan Zeno, the foundation of the Stoa, and the different fases of the Stoicism )

For a brief period, after the conquests of Alexander the Great, it became the most powerful state in the world, controlling a territory that included the former Persian empire, stretching as far as the Indus River ; at that time it inaugurated the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greek civilization.

* The 7th Ancient Civilizations in Bulgaria ( The Golden Prehistoric Civilization, Civilization of Thracians and Macedonians, Hellenistic Civilization, Roman Civilization, Byzantine Civilization, Bulgarian Civilization, Islamic Civilization ), by Bozhidar Dimitrov ; Published by " KOM Foundation ," Sofia, 2005 ( 108 p .)

During the 290s BC, Hellenistic civilization begins its emergence throughout the successor states of the former Argead Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great resulting in the diffusion of Greek culture throughout the Ancient world and advances in Science, mathematics, philosophy and etc.

The history of the Ancient Greek civilization is divided into two eras, the Hellenic and the Hellenistic.

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

* The fourth-century ( Late Classical ) period of sculpture ends in Ancient Greece and is succeeded by the Hellenistic period ( approximate date ).

Eventually, literary Attic ( and the classic texts written in it ) came to be widely studied far beyond its original homeland, first in the Classical civilizations of the Mediterranean ( Ancient Rome and the Hellenistic world ), and later in the Muslim world, Europe, and wherever European civilization spread to other parts of the world.

Ninus (), according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh ( also called Νίνου πόλις " city of Ninus " in Greek ), Ancient capital of Assyria, although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and / or fictional figures of antiquity, as seen to the Greeks through the mists of time.

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th – 6th centuries BC, ( known as Archaic ), c. 5th – 4th centuries BC ( Classical ), and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD ( Hellenistic ) of ancient Greece and the ancient world ; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek.

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated in the Roman Empire.

The collection of Classical Antiquities feature Greek artefacts from the 3rd millennium – 5th century BC, Ancient Greek pottery, items from the Greek cities of the North Pontic Greek colonies, Hellenistic sculpture and jewellery, including engraved gems and cameos, such as the famous Gonzaga Cameo, Italic art from the 9th to 2nd century BC, Roman marble and bronze sculpture and applied art from the 1st century BC-4th century AD, including copies of Classical and Hellenistic Greek sculptures.

* Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times by Thomas R. Martin, Yale University Press, 1996.

Athletic prowess, prized by the Ancient Greeks, was looked down upon as an unwelcome intrusion of Hellenistic values.

* Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels