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Greco-Alexandrian prominent

Alexandria, Egypt isn't only known for it masterpiece greek places, but also prominent greek figures who, conquered, took the throne, or even artists

today's blog is going to be focusing on greco-alexandrian patron of poem  who has multicultural perception, poetic  and journalistic gifts.

Peter Cavafy was the artist, journalist, and poet who was attached to Alexandria to the bones. Cavafy lived in Alexandria half of his life after living in several countries  before, for example; the united kingdom.

Cavafy's home, or comfort zone as he mentioned before his death, is now opened for visitors as a museum in the greek old heritage streets in Alexandria. visualizing the place with words without actually seeing it isn't enough for me, thus; a team work feature was done about this poet, i contributed in the feature videography and editing to picture this place for life

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1huCVvFMfBNCf_3j1qXSwM_pyNIOBI_Fl/view?usp=sharing

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Historical scope

As you except from this blog to share about ancient greek and it’s relation to Egypt specifically the most known Mediterranean city in Egypt, Alexandria  

Now we will ride my time machine I’ve invented specially for you and travel to the past to see if the ancient Egyptians and ancient greek met

"You Greeks are youngsters." That is the very thing an Egyptian priest should have told a meeting Greek in the sixth century BC. What's more, as it were he was correct. We consider Antiquated Greece, indeed, "old", and it is presently known to return to Mycenaean culture of the final part of the second thousand years BC. However, Egyptian civilization is significantly sooner than that: during the second thousand years BC it was at its level (the "New Realm"), yet its beginnings go solidly into the third thousand years BC or considerably prior.

Egyptians and Greeks are known to have been in contact currently in the second thousand years BC, however we have barely any insight into it. The image becomes more clear from around 600BC, when the nautical Greeks were continuous guests to Egypt. Some of it was for exchange (there was a Greek exchanging base at Naucratis Egypt from about this time), some of it was about military administrations, and some of it was likely touring. By the fifth fourth hundreds of years BC Greek erudite people had a very smart thought of Egyptian culture. They realized it was antiquated (truth be told they incredibly misjudged how old it was), and they considered it to be a wellspring of information and exclusive insight. Some of them accepted that Egypt had impacted Greece in the far off past; for the student of history Herodotus, Greek religion was for the most part an Egyptian import.

Streak forward to the Greek time frame (late fourth first hundreds of years BC), while, following Alexander the great the Incomparable, Egypt was taken over by a Greco-Macedonian tradition situated in the new city of Alexandria. These Greek pharaohs imparted in Greek and the actual country turned out to be progressively bilingual and bicultural, a cycle that went on into the Roman time frame. The most distinctive image of the new Greco-Egyptian culture that created is the ubiquity of Egyptian religion, especially the goddess Isis, who had admirers all around the Mediterranean by the first century BC.

Something major Egypt and Greece shared practically speaking was their obsession for literature . Greek literature was similarly youthful, verified from around 700BC (Homer, Hesiod), albeit the Greeks likely had oral writing significantly sooner than that. Egypt has one of the earliest authenticated artistic customs on the planet, going right back to the third thousand years BC.

Demotic content on the Rosetta Stone, English Historical center. Photograph by Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0 through Wikimedia Hall.

English Gallery Egypt by Einsamer Schütze. CC-BY-SA 3.0 through Wikimedia Hall.

Whenever Greeks were gotten comfortable Egypt, they probably experienced Egyptian writing. No lack of Egyptian writing was being composed and acted in this period, the majority of it in the later type of the Egyptian language called "Demotic" (which has a truly troublesome content). We wouldn't have a ton of familiarity with this today, yet fortunately a portion of the papyrus-original copies have made due, or if nothing else bits of them have. Gigantic advances have been made in distinguishing and unraveling these over the most recent couple of many years, and interestingly we can start to see what Egyptian writing resembled in the Greek and Roman periods.

Demetrius updated idea

 

Alexandrian greek symbol

If we narrowly defined the most known greek symbol of Alexandria Egypt nowadays, the library of Alexandria or “ Bibliotheca Alexandrina” would smoothly standstill.

As a previous blog mentioned about the ptolemaic era and the first person to introduce the idea of building the ancient library was Demetrious Phalerious to king ptolemy the first the the daughter library at the reign of king ptolemy the second, unfortunately; both libraries were destroyed due several incidents and wars happened. As an inspiration, professor Mustafa Alabadi in 1974 introduced the idea of reviving the library again.

Who designed the library? Egypt collaborated with the UNESCO in an international architecture competition and the first place went to A Norwegian Group project called “ Snohetta “ consist of five architects members two Norwegian, one American, one Austrian, and an Egyptian called Ehab Alhabbak.

Having now the cultural plaza which, concerts and outdoor events occurs there and it also  holds three building, the planetarium; a documentary displaying all sky technology screen, the main building the library building which is covered with six thousand blocks came all the from Aswan and carved with four thousand letters from 120 different languages including the dead languages, and finally the conferences  center.

The library building museums and exhibition for different eras, for instant; pharaonic era, greco-roman era, coptic, and islamic eras.

Museums: 

• Antiquities
• Alsadat 
• Manuscripts

Permanent Exhibitions:

• Impression of Alexandria 
• Ahmed Abdelwahab sculptures 
• Shady Abdelsallam 
• Mohamed Hassanein Heikal 

tap on the link below to view a documentary-like about the Bibliotheca Alexandrina  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15fOuqct_c6z5na4UdysICViyswzZzvGr/view?usp=sharing

Apollo reveals

Greek history is one of the most powerful empires in the human history. In fact, not only for ruling strategies, but also artistic, literary and educational visions.

Apollo was a great symbol for education in the ancient greek mythology, thus he would like to share in this article some of the educational Greco-Roman reign.

Ancient Egyptians were popularly known for hieroglyphs, what were the greeks known for then?

Ancient greek letters are mainly symbolic and some are pronounced differently , for instance; the initial letter of the alphabets was symboled as A as well but was called alpha, similarly; B letter was called beta, and here came the ancestor word of "Alphabet". Continuing, the next letter isn't usable currently and was called Gamma ( Γ ) for uppercase and ( γ ) for lowercase, Delta takes the shape a triangle for its uppercase form and ( δ ) for lowercase. in contrast lambda letter is symbolized as ( Λ ) and ( λ ), Mu is ( M )

( μ ), Theta is ( Θ ) and ( θ ). lastly the phi letter is a mathematician symbol that is still in usage represented in ( Φ ) and ( φ ). On the other hand, there are letters and symbols which are similar to the current english language for example: Epsilon is ( E )، Rho is ( P ), Tau is ( T ), Upsilon is ( Y ), Chi is

 (X), in contrast the last greek letter is Omega ( Ω ) ( ω ).

whats's the basic educational structure rather than writing or reading?Indeed, counting and doing mathematical equations. To illustrate, the word Greek runs over our instructive years endlessly time. In history we read about them in Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Domain, in religion we read about the amazing Greek Divine beings, in language we read about their imagery and writing. The Old Greeks are broadly known for their set of experiences, writing, expressions, science, theory and religion. Anyway there is one field the Greeks have dominated in, science that we don't appreciate however much we ought to be. Along these lines this article sums up the best characters in the antiquated Greek history. Being a mathematician is certainly not a simple errand however the Greek appears to have dominated in the field. Here is a rundown of the best 15 well known Greek mathematicians and their commitments!

Ancient greeks were hugely known for their mathematicians, for example: Euclid; the patron or the god father of geometry in the greco-roman era, his name's translation to english means“renowned, glorious”, which might relate to the knowledge he had.

almost every school in the world taught its student the Pythagoras theorem equation ,which is calculated as, c2 = a2 + b2, where 'c' = hypotenuse of the right triangle and 'a' and 'b' are the other two legs. Thus, any triangle with one point equivalent to 90 degrees creates a Pythagoras triangle and the Pythagoras condition can be applied in the triangle, where did the word Pythagoras came from tho? the ancient greek mathematician virtuoso " Pythagoras " accomplished in his commitments in math and become the dad of the hypothesis of Pythagoras. Conceived is Samos, Greece and escaped off to Egypt and perhaps India. This incredible mathematician is generally conspicuously known for, what else at the same time, for his Pythagoras hypothesis.

Ending up with Eratosthenes, who was most popular as the individual who determined the circumference of the earth, likewise the first to ascertain the slant of the World's pivot. Both of the computations were strikingly exact, thusly he became widely popular for his unbelievably precise estimations

Alexandrian inspiration

 Egyptian history has been exposed to several eras and reigns,
 narrowing scope to the greek era in Alexandria.

Alexander the great was a patron of strength for controls, his reign settled between 356 till 323 before christ. The conqueror decided to widen his emperor, after conquering Syria and the levant, by conquering Egypt, as well. Narrowing deeper to Alexandria  city, which was founded after the name of alexander the great in 331 before christ. Before he died, due to fever in a very young age, he was planning to design Alexandria  city as chessboard structure; horizontal streets intersect vertical ones.

statue of Alexander the great the antiquities museum, the library of Alexandria 
photo credit: Haidy Elshazly 

The general added to Alexandria at that reign dozens of architecture masterpieces, for instance; the pharaoh lighthouse of Alexandria. Archeologists believe that it was at the current place of the citadel of Qaitbay

Greco Roman reign didn’t quit painting its artistic vision in Alexandria , furthermore;  Demetrius Phalereus was the first one to introduce the idea of building the ancient library of Alexandria  to king PtolemyI, the statue of the king ptolemy the first was a sunken antique and was fished out of the ocean after 2000 years of drowning, at the eastern harbor.

library web statue of the king ptolemyI, library of Alexandria 

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Consequently at the reign of kings ptolemyII and III the ancient library was a center for arts, sciences, and maths. In addition to the constructing the daughter library, thus; both libraries were exchanging books and scrolls due to the increases.

Moving to Pompeii’s  pillar;  around 25m red Aswan stone blocks with a circumference of 9m, was developed out of appreciation for the Ruler Diocletian . Moreover, Diocletian  caught Alexandria after it had been under attack. The Bedouins referred to it as "Amoud el-Sawari", Section of the Horsemen. The Support point is the tallest antiquated landmark in Alexandria. 

Additionally, The Catacombs of Kom es-Shouqafa: These burial places were burrowed into the bedrock in the age of the Antonine sovereigns (second century A.D.) for a solitary well off family actually rehearsing the antiquated religion. As a secretly supported project, it is a designing accomplishment of some greatness. These burial chambers address the last existing significant development for the old Egyptian religion. They are distant from everyone else worth the outing to Alexandria. However the funerary themes are unadulterated antiquated Egyptian, the modelers and craftsmen were educated in the Greco-Roman style. Applied to the subjects of Old Egyptian religion, it has brought about an astonishing incorporated workmanship, very not at all like anything more on the planet.

A winding flight of stairs drops a few levels profound into the ground, with little houses of prayer opening from it, outfitted with seats to oblige guests or grievers bringing contributions. There are specialties patterns to hold stone caskets.

Ending up with The Roman Theater (Kom Al-Dikka): More than 30 years of exhuming have revealed numerous Roman remaining parts including this very much safeguarded performance center with exhibitions, areas of mosaic-ground surface and marble seats for up to 800 onlookers. In Ptolemaic times, this region was the Recreation area of Dish and a joy garden. The theater at one point might have been roofed over to act as an Odeon for melodic exhibitions.

The Roman Theater (Kom Al-Dikka)

credit: unknown 

Engravings propose that it was now and again likewise utilized for wrestling challenges. The theater remained with thirteen semi-roundabout levels of white marble that was imported from Europe. 

Its sections are of green marble imported from Asia Minor, and red rock imported from Aswan. The wings on one or the other side of the stage are brightened with 

mathematical mosaic clearing. The dusty dividers of the channels, from diving in the upper east side of the Odeon, are layered with phenomenal measures of potsherds. Going down out of the Kom, you can see the significant curves and dividers in stone, the block of the Roman showers, and the remaining parts of Roman houses.