Alexandria

In the capital of the world, its enchanted Greek-Coptic city, with its monks, its merchants, its acrobats, its representatives, its seducers, and its craftsmen, its patriarchs and its prostitutes, its mobs, its seductresses, its helmets, its one and only non-repeated library, its baths with thousands, its secret underground churches, and the fine marble columns of its temples. Its torments and festivals. The circus, the lighthouse, the theater, the temples of Jupiter, Zeus, and Amun, the al...