Harold T. Davis

Alexandria, the Golden City, Vol. I - The City of the Ptolemies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in two volumes in 1957, this is the first volume devoted to the rich history of the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria and focuses on the time of the Ptolemies."e;This book is dedicated to the story of Alexandria, called by Athenaeus "e;the golden city."e; The story of Athens has been told by many writers; the rise and fall of Home has been the favorite theme of the historians; but the city of Alexandria has never had an extensive biography. This is a curious fact, indeed, since Alexandria, founded in 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great, developed into regal magnificence under the Macedonian Ptolemies, and for nearly a thousand years was one of the most remarkable cities in the world. The infirmities of old age came upon it near the close of the Roman Empire and the weary city finally passed into oblivion about 646 A.D. when the Saracen invaders destroyed at last the monuments of its old-world glory. Thus stretches the biography of Alexandria across ten of the most interesting centuries in human history!"e;Richly illustrated throughout with maps, pictures and figures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hauraki Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787202597
• Artikelnr.: 47146037

Autorenporträt

Harold Thayer Davis (5 October 1892 - 14 November 1974) was a mathematician, statistician, and econometrician, known for the Davis distribution. Through his sister Marjorie, he also had a strong interest in and appreciation of Classical languages and Classical culture. Born in Beatrice, Nebraska, he received his A.B. from Colorado College (1915), his M.A. from Harvard University (1919) and his PhD under Edward Burr Van Vleck from the University of Wisconsin in 1926. He worked as a mathematics instructor at the University of Wisconsin from 1920-1923, and then as a mathematics professor at the Indiana University Bloomington from 1923-1937. In 1937, he became a professor at Northwestern University in the mathematics department and was selected for the position of department chair in 1942. Davis was the author of many articles in refereed journals and numerous books and monographs. He was an associate editor of Econometrica, Isis, and the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, and was elected a Fellow the Econometric Society. He died in Bloomington, Indiana in 1974 aged 82.