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	Cosmopolitan Alexandria
		Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. and it soon became the capital of Egypt under the dynasty of the Ptolemies, whose last pharaoh was Ptolemy XVI (44-30 B.C.), king of kings, son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
		Alexandria continued to be an important trading post until the end of the XVth century, when the opening of new commercial routes between Europe and India and in 1517 the conquest of Egypt by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I, led to its decline.
		Notwithstanding the fortress, Alexandria was conquered by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I in 1517.
	members.tripod.com /romeartlover/Alessandria.html (1263 words)

	ALEXANDRIA : Encyclopedia Entry
		Alexandria (Greek: Αλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ Rakotə, Arabic: الإسكندرية Al-ʼIskandariya, Egyptian Arabic: Iskindireyya), (population of 3.5 to 5 million), is the second-largest city in Egypt, and its largest seaport.
		Alexandria was intended to supersede Naucratis as a Greek centre in Egypt, and to be the link between Greece and the rich Nile Valley.
		One of the earliest well-known inhabitants of Alexandria during the Ptolemaic reign was the geometer and number-theorist Euclid.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Alexandria (3504 words)

	Assyria
		Alexandria also played a key role in passing on Hellenic culture to Rome and was a center of scholarship in the theological disputes over the nature of Christ's divinity that divided the early church.
		Alexandria, however, could not be ignored, since it held the key to the Egyptian granary on which Rome increasingly came to rely; and the city soon regained its independence.
		Alexandria soon was eclipsed politically by the new Arab capital at al-Fustat (which later was absorbed into the modern capital, Cairo), and this city became the strategic prize for those wanting to control Egypt.
	www.realtime.net /~wdoud/topics/alexandria.html (1970 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Alexandria
		Cavafy came to be identified with Alexandria through his poetry, which presents readers with a myriad of classical, historical, and scholarly allusions, along with a hedonistic, sensual, cynical, and modern outlook.
		Alexandria, home to Euclid, the mathematician, witnessed the rise to prominence of new and hybrid schools of philosophy: the Gnostics, Neo- Pythagoreans, Neo-Platonists, Monophysites, and Judaists.
		In Alexandria, he met Cavafy, whose poetry he admired and was to promote and bring to the attention of the English-speaking world.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/alexandria.html (805 words)

	Cliquez ici for Alexandria by Theodore Dalrymple
		His has been what to me seems a dispiriting trajectory in life, from the capital of memory (in Lawrence Durrell’s phrase) to an English suburb where memory is abjured: from a life of cosmopolitan cafés to one of attention to the banal and mostly imaginary ailments of the bored and unhappy.
		It is a commonplace that Alexandria in its cosmopolitan heyday, when a third of the population was of foreign origin, acted as a powerful stimulus to the literary imagination, though—or is it because?—the city’s true vocation was making money by such activities as cotton-broking and trans-shipment.
		The desperate poverty of Alexandria has gone: or at least the children are gone who were described by Durrell, so listless that they do not brush away the flies that settle on their eyelids.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/mar03/alexandria.htm (1442 words)

	International Lawrence Durrell Society: The Alexandria Quartet
		"Durrell's Hermetic Puer and Senex in The Alexandria Quartet." Critique 26.2 (1985): 67-80.
		Townscape in The Alexandria Quartet." Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Quarterly 7.5 (1984): 51-68.
		"The Unity of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet." Diss.
	www.durrell-school-corfu.org /bibliog/bibalexandria-a.htm (10124 words)

	cresmoalex
		The Alexandria Quartet is a novel of existential and societal decay, the decay of a culture into civilization, in the Splengerian manner.
		Alexandria embodies that decline, and the shabbiness of modern day Alexandria is an expression of the decay, as is the sexual promiscuity and 'perversions'.
		Durrell's Alexandria is thus to be found not in the North African city, not in the text or words of The Alexandria Quartet, but in the interface between the reader and the text.
	www.crescentmoon.org.uk /cresmoalex (4926 words)

	Alexandria (El-Iskandariya) Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		ALEXANDRIA turns its back on the rest of Egypt and faces the Mediterranean, as if contemplating its glorious past; a hybrid city characterized by Durrell as the "Capital of Memory".
		One of the great cities of antiquity, Alex slumbered for 1300 years until it was revived by Mohammed Ali and transformed by Europeans, who gave the city its present shape and made it synonymous with cosmopolitanism and decadence.
		This era came to an end in the 1950s with the mass flight of non-Egyptians and a dose of revolutionary puritanism, but Alexandria's beaches, restaurants and breezy climate still attract hordes of Cairenes during the summer, while its jaded historical and literary mystique remains appealing to foreigners.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/Africa-&-Middle-East/Egypt/Alexandria-(El-Iskandariya) (214 words)

	Alexandria
		Alexandria extends about 20 miles (32 km) along the coast of the Mediterranean sea in northcentral Egypt.
		Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in or around 334 BC (the exact date is disputed) as Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Aleksándreia; see also List of traditional Greek place names).
		Alexandria is served by the nearby El Nouzha Airport, located 7 km to the southeast.
	www.1bx.com /en/Alexandria.htm (3619 words)

	City of the Imagination
		That's what struck me: he's somebody who feels very passionate not just about ancient Alexandria and the glory that it once was, but he also appreciates the more recent past and the way the city has transformed over the millennia.
		I read The Alexandria Quartet in my 20s, and I completely fell in love with Lawrence Durrell's mesmerizing vision of a diverse, polyglot, exciting Mediterranean city with a rich past that is almost invisible.
		Alexandria ranks among the most important cities of the ancient world, and yet its past has been largely ignored.
	www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2007/april/alexandria-author.php (788 words)

	Alibris: Alexandria
		Alexandria" will continue to delight the three million readers who fell in love with the epistolary romance of "Griffin & Sabine." Awash with gorgeous artwork, the mystery of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem now entwines with Matthew Sedon, an archaeologist steeped in Egyptian antiquity, and Isabella de Reims, a student in Paris whose vision holds...
		The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are still dedicated to knowledge.
		Mountolive is the third volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Alexandria (1146 words)

	greekworks
		They are Constantine Cavafy, who was born in Alexandria in 1863 and died there in 1933, E. Forster, who spent several years in Alexandria around the time of the First World War, and Lawrence Durrell, who lived in the city during the 1940s.
		The Quartet is a celebration of the loose and torrid lifestyle of the city’s foreign elite and contributed to glamorizing Alexandrian cosmopolitanism in the minds of the reading public in the West.
		Durrell’s Alexandria is autobiographical, not historical, as in Cavafy’s poetry or Forster’s prose, which refer to the ancient city.
	www.greekworks.com /content/index.php/weblog/extended/alexandria_tercet (1509 words)

	Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet in its Egyptian Contexts
		In Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet in its Egyptian Contexts, Dr. Diboll argues that Durrell’s tetralogy is the most important English novel of the mid-nineteen-fifties, an historically significant period which has been much overlooked by literary scholars.
		Thus, the book insists, the Alexandria Quartet should be recognised as a colossal work of literature, standing astride the nexus separating the colonial and post-colonial moments, a paradigmatic text for scholars of Empire studies, late Modernism, literary postmodernity, orientalism and post-colonial literature.
		This work does not neglect to examine Egyptian responses to the Alexandria Quartet, and it examines with a forensic thoroughness the way in which the "public life realities" of emergent Egyptian nationalism are subtly embedded in what for too long has been considered to be a work of fantasy.
	www.mellenpress.com /mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6100&pc=9 (816 words)

	Amazon.com: The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet): Books: Lawrence Durrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His characters and the evocation of wartime Alexandria are so perfect that you can taste the perfume on Justine's neck, hear the call from the mosques and smell the blood of camels butchered in the streets.
		Indeed, the Alexandria Quartet hasn't aged well, but between its puerile conceits and purple prose, I find it hard to believe it was ever well received.
		Inspired by her love and memories, he completed Justine, and conceived the idea of a series of books "using the same people in different combinations." Balthazar is the equal of Justine in its imagery and investigation of character; of the tetralogy, these two are closest in spirit.
	www.amazon.com /Alexandria-Quartet-Boxed-Set/dp/0140153179 (2532 words)

	Egypt-Alexandria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexandria where the English, French, Greeks, Italians and Turks lived and worked among the Egyptians.
		Alexandria is the city that was ordered built by the Macedonian conqueror of Egypt, Alexander the Great.
		Although Alexandria is noted more for its beaches, it does have a few worthy remnants of the past.
	hometown.aol.com /egypttravel/Egypt-Alexandria.html (454 words)

	Alexandria News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alexandria is a city of memories, and this is sunken part of our memories so if we like to explore, and discover we have to dive. Really I found that many of our tourists group didn’t know that Alexandria as a recent diving stars to attract many tourists here for diving.
		Egypt was ruled from Alexandria by Ptolemy’s descendants until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.
		The Library at Alexandria was conceived largely as an attempt to bring together in Alexandria the whole of the earlier Greek science, art, and literature.
	touregypt.net /teblog/alexandrianews (5786 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Justine \| Lawrence Durrell
		The city of Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between the First and Second World Wars is hauntingly evoked in Justine, the first novel in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
		While their actions frequently appear to be prescribed by the "collective desires" of Alexandria, it is difficult not to hold the characters accountable for the harm their actions sometimes do to others.
		The narrator attempts to corrupt the virtuous Justine by exposing her to a variety of sexual vices and simultaneously engaging her in philosophical dialogues about nature, religion, politics, and sex.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/justine.html (1633 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture Page \| Alexandria re-inscribed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Set, like The Alexandria Quartet, during the Second World War, Abdel-Meguid's No One Sleeps in Alexandria re-inscribes into the literary city, in the same historical period, Egyptian Alexandrians whom Durrell had more or less reduced to the Coptic, aristocratic figures of Nessim and his family, and Hamid, Darley's sufragi.
		Given the current rapid metamorphosis in Alexandria itself -- a new Corniche, more high-rises in place of demolished villas, and much else -- there is every reason to believe that traffic in "Alexandriana", if one may call it so, will also be on the rise.
		Alexandria, the white, gay, provocative city, was oblivious to them, the refuse discarded by faraway towns and villages, When did anyone ever pause for the sake of refuse?
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/472/bk1_472.htm (2198 words)

	Raising Alexandria
		With all its lost grandeur, Alexandria has long held poets and writers in thrall, from E. Forster, author of a 1922 guide to the city's vanished charms, to the British novelist Lawrence Durrell, whose Alexandria Quartet, published in the late 1950s, is a bittersweet paean to the haunted city.
		The forgotten cisterns of Alexandria were in particular danger of being filled in by new construction.
		The granite-and-marble Alexandria that the poets thought long gone still survives, and Empereur hopes to open a visitors' center for one of the cisterns to show something of Alexandria's former glory.
	www.smithsonianmagazine.com /issues/2007/april/alexandria.php (802 words)

	Alexandria Quartet, The : Justine : Balthazar : Mount Olive : Clea - Lawrence Durrell
		Alexandria Quartet, The : Justine : Balthazar : Mount Olive : Clea - Lawrence Durrell
		This atmospheric, poetic quartet of novels, undoubtedly one of the great English works of the post-Second World War period, is set in war-time Alexandria, with its politics, passions, corruption and vice.
		In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden and the other major characters are given a very different perspective.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/9626340401.html (501 words)

	The Alexandria Quartet Study Guide by Lawrence Durrell
		The Alexandria Quartet Short Guide consists of approx.
		Each guide is written by a subject expert, professional educator, or scholar of the work.
		The Alexandria Quartet from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-alexandria-quartet (90 words)

	Hotels in Alexandria, the heart of the Mediterranean.
		Aristotle's famous student Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria in 332 BC, and the city served as capital for the country for a thousand years.
		In more modern times Lawrence Durell's "Alexandria Quartet" became cult literature for a whole generation in the west, and the Greek Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy was introduced to the world.
		Late Aga Khan considered this the most beautiful place on earth, and when he passed away it was arranged by his instruction that he was buried in his mausoleum in Aswan, his paradise on earth.
	www.egyptmyway.com /hotels/alexandria/index.html (704 words)

	The Alexandria Quartet Summary
		The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960.
		They are dramatic, erotic, anything but peaceful; they cannot be easily summarized, for Alexandria is like the recurring palms that appear in the mirrored walls of the ballroom at the Cecil, fractured and prismatic.
		Since nothing he published after the "Quartet" seemed to be in the same class, it occurred to me that we may have overestimated the books for which he is famous.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Alexandria_Quartet (511 words)

	Amazon.com: Justine (Alexandria Quartet): Books: Lawrence Durrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Alexandria of this novel hums, crackles, simmers...sometimes it devours the characters who choose to live there, sometimes it gives them moments of epiphany.
		If the Alexandria Quartet was an allstar team (as i think it certainly should be, put it against any series of stories, bible included:)) then Justine would have to be the superstar.
		Alexandria is the backdrop for a pre/post WWII drama and is rife with adultery, prostitution, STDs, alcoholism, foreign affairs, and most importantly to me; the loyalty that unifies family and friends.
	www.amazon.com /Justine-Alexandria-Quartet-Lawrence-Durrell/dp/0140153195 (2225 words)

	Coffee shops of Alexandria
		Constantine Cavafy was born in Alexandria in 1863 to Greek parents, and died in the city some 70 years later.
		In the 1920s Egypt was under British rule and Alexandria was a cosmopolitan and bohemian city with many immigrants from all across Europe, it was also home to a thriving artistic community.
		Often with a Greek theme – reflecting the large Greek population in Alexandria at the time – these coffee shops were the centre of life for the European literati, including Durrell, Cavafy and EM Forster, who also wrote about the city.
	impressions-ba.com /features.php?id_destination_info=3&id_feature=10185 (1051 words)

	www.myspace.com/thealexandriaquartet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Alexandria Quartet, with frontfigure Odd Martin Skålnes vocal talents in the lead, are by many fortuned to be the next great rockband from Norway.
		At the time the quartet is working in Lydriket studio, placed in Bergen, with producers Erlend Fauske and Geir Luedy (Robert Post, Kaizers Orchestra, Karin Park).
		Before even doing their first live-performance, The Alexandria Quartet were put on the A-list at the Student-radio station in Bergen.
	www.myspace.com /thealexandriaquartet (874 words)

	Alexandria Quartet
		Situated centrally on the northern edge of Egypt, and home to Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, Alexandria has always been a city of strange and exotic mixtures blending to embody much of the history of Europe, the Levant, and the East.
		We’ll look at the role of this place in creating Durrell’s Quartet, and we’ll explore the important connections among place, period, and art in writers as different as medieval Moslem mystics, Jewish Kabbalists, and modern novelists.
		We’ll look at Alexandria as the center of syncretic beliefs like gnosticism and we’ll explore the growth, development, and influence of hermetic magic from its inception in Greco-Roman Alexandria, to its re-emergence in twentieth-century literature.
	www.denison.edu /honors/seminars/hnrs268b.html (255 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: The Alexandria Quartet
		The four novels of The Alexandria Quartet – Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960) – appeared in rapid succession in Britain and the United States, exciting critical acclaim and enjoying popular success.
		The Alexandria Quartet is one of those works that seem to draw upon and sum up a multitude of works and writers and bodies of knowledge that have come before.
		Here he sorts out his memories of pre-war Alexandria, a tawdry Levantine port made glamorous by his love affair with a beautiful Egyptian femme fatale named Justine and by his friendship with a host of Egyptians and expatriates thrown together by the approach of World War II.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10820 (704 words)

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