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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

feature link

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