Alexandrian
Ancient library's city
Alexandrian refers to Alexandria, the ancient Egyptian city founded by Alexander the Great, which became the intellectual capital of the Hellenistic world.
The term often describes the scholarly, literary culture that flourished there—particularly the library and its tradition of textual criticism, commentary, and compilation.
Alexandrian scholarship tends toward the learned and meticulous rather than the boldly original: His poetry has an Alexandrian quality—erudite, allusive, technically polished.
Earth-centered astronomical system
- CleopatraEgypt's last pharaoh
- PtolemyGreco-Egyptian astronomer, geographer
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- LibraryBook-lending institution
Septuagint · Euclid · geometry · Eratosthenes · Archimedes · philosophy · astronomy · medicine
Book-lending institution
- scrollsRolled written records
- papyrusAncient plant-derived writing material
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- EuclidFather of geometry
philology · commentaries · cataloguing · translation · Septuagint · treatises · lectures · theorems
Coastal beacon tower
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
- portDocking place for ships
- MediterraneanSea between Europe, Africa, Asia
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
Nile · delta · metropolis · cosmopolitan · trade · maritime · Serapeum · Catacombs
Relating to Egyptian monarchs
- PtolemaicEarth-centered astronomical system
- CleopatraEgypt's last pharaoh
- RosettaTrilingual Egyptian artifact
- hieroglyphicsSymbolic picture-based writing
obelisk · Serapeum · Isis · syncretism · dynasty · mummies · necropolis · Catacombs
Ptolemaic
Earth-centered astronomical system
- CleopatraEgypt's last pharaoh
- PtolemyGreco-Egyptian astronomer, geographer
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
Library · Septuagint · Euclid · geometry · Eratosthenes · Archimedes · philosophy · astronomy · medicine · poetry
Library
Book-lending institution
- scrollsRolled written records
- papyrusAncient plant-derived writing material
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
Euclid · philology · commentaries · cataloguing · translation · Septuagint · treatises · lectures · theorems · geometry
lighthouse
Coastal beacon tower
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
- portDocking place for ships
- MediterraneanSea between Europe, Africa, Asia
Egypt · Nile · delta · metropolis · cosmopolitan · trade · maritime · Serapeum · Catacombs · founded
pharaonic
Relating to Egyptian monarchs
- PtolemaicEarth-centered astronomical system
- CleopatraEgypt's last pharaoh
- RosettaTrilingual Egyptian artifact
hieroglyphics · obelisk · Serapeum · Isis · syncretism · dynasty · mummies · necropolis · Catacombs · bilingual
AlexandrianAthenian
Ancient Greek city-dweller
Platonic · Socratic · Roman · anti-intellectual · pragmatic
AlexandrianRoman
Of ancient Italy's capital
Athenian · barbarian · provincial · Carthaginian · Persian
Alexandrianartless
Lacking deceit or cunning
unscholarly · Homeric · unadorned · plain · spontaneous
- library of AlexandriaAncient Egypt's famed archive
- Hero of AlexandriaAncient Greek mechanician
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Cyril of AlexandriaEarly Egyptian patriarch, theologian
- ancient AlexandriaEgyptian port of antiquity
- Lighthouse of AlexandriaAncient wonder, maritime beacon