{"id":63,"date":"2012-02-12T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=63"},"modified":"2013-04-16T13:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T10:48:03","slug":"ptolemaic-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/ptolemaic-alexandria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ptolemaic Alexandria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=93\">Prof. Henao-san <\/a>mentioned in his mail &#8220;Cosmos&#8221; by Carl Sagan.\u00a0 The book influenced his life and perhaps is responsible for his travels to Egypt to find health books originated in ancient knowledge.<br \/>\nHe also mentioned \u201cPtolemaic Alexandria\u201d by Fraser.<\/p>\n<p>I borrowed the three volume books about Alexandria from a library on the shore of Lake of Galilee.<\/p>\n<p>I leaf through them and gaze at the view from my studio window; I see the valley and hill, cypress trees and some cows. Outlying in the horizon is the city of Nazareth.<br \/>\nI think to myself: I needed to travel all the way to Kyoto to find this book about my neighbors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-362 alignleft\" title=\"Second excavation period fragment Idol of pregnant women\" src=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Second-excavation-period-fragment-Idol-of-pregnant-women-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/a-view-from-my-studio-window.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My story about Alexandria Library starts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=402\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Henao-san mentioned in his mail &#8220;Cosmos&#8221; by Carl Sagan.\u00a0 The book influenced his life and perhaps is responsible for his travels to Egypt to find health books originated in ancient knowledge. He also mentioned \u201cPtolemaic Alexandria\u201d by Fraser. I borrowed the three volume books about Alexandria from a library on the shore of Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,204,85],"tags":[213,37,147,34,184,105,148,185,40,39,38,216,33,36,35,149,140,141,142,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}