The Rise & Fall of Alexandria (again!)

I've just re-read this book, and enjoyed it as least much as I did the first time back in 2008.

Perhaps the biggest difference with this second reading is that I've now visited so many more of the ancient sites referenced in the book, most notably across modern Turkey, including Byzantium/Constantinople, Ephesus, Pergamum, Didyma, Perge and more.  

Alexandria's prominence in the Hellenistic period also converges with that of Syracuse, which we will be visiting later this year on our trip through Sicily.  Many of the great thinkers of the era passed back and forth between those two great cities.

Glad to be taking this sojourn through the Hellenistic!