Jerusalem's Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea by Seward Desmond

Author:Seward, Desmond [Seward, Desmond]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780786746415
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2009-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

In Egypt, Vespasian installed himself and his staff at Alexandria, the capital. Founded by Alexander the Great, this was for all intents and purposes a Greek city, with very few native Egyptians among a population that numbered almost a million. The walls were fifteen miles in circumference, around a metropolis of straight, narrow streets laid out on a grid pattern, and the major thoroughfares were filled with mansions, public buildings, and temples. The biggest temple, the Serapeum, housed not only the cult of the god Serapis but a major part of the largest public library in the world. Because Alexandra lacked a natural harbor, a port had been created by constructing a long mole out to the island of Pharos—on which stood a light-house 400 feet tall that was one of the wonders of antiquity.

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