In our Alexandrian travel in time, we meet high personalities that stamped irreversibly the cosmopolitan city's character throughout the ages. The famous Alexandrian
Nights in
White Moon Colours!
The nocturnal custodian of the
City –
Cosmos of
Alexander is dressed in its regular apparel; it is time for evening walkings and endeavours.
Alexandria reflects all its magic in white nights.
Inhabitants and travelers meet the
Unknown in the lengthy, curvy Corniche, a highly personified location that resembles the passionate, naked body of a Sea
Lady.
As the wind blows, millions of
Mediterranean Sea drops are thrown on the faces of the buildings and on the eyes of the wanderers. In some spots, like
Shatby beach in front of the
Library or the rocky edges before
Mustafa Kamel hospital, an unusually strong odour of iodium suggests to us which the correct location is for ideal homeopathy. This is a place for meditation and nocturnal contemplation of the Alexandrian stars.
And as you are about to forget the
4th century CE Coptic massacres of the followers of
Ancient Egyptian rites, the Muslim massacres of
Copts in the
Mamelouk and the Ottoman times, the terrible strives and clashes between the
Greeks and the
Jews that highlighted Alexandria's exasperations during the Ptolemaic and the
Roman times, you come to meet
Eratosthenes, the great
Geographer and wise librarian
. In the beginning of the second half of the third pre-Christian century, he concluded in a groundbreaking study that the (flat)
Earth's
Equator (Isemerinos) crosses
Syene, today's
Aswan, no less than
1080 km south of Alexandria!
It was the first time a wise scholar stipulated that there was south of
Egypt's southernmost city (Aswan) as much surface to cross as from that
point to the northernmost confines of the then known world. To the eyes of the
Egyptians, who under
Nechao had arranged the first circumnavigation of
Africa, to the eyes of the
Phoenicians who had been famous and unmatched in sailing in the
Atlantic and the
Indian Oceans, to the eyes of the
Aramaeans who had already organized the land trade through
Central Asia up to
China, and to the eyes of the Greeks, who had reached as far as
India (thanks to
Alexander King of
Macedonia) and
Thule (
Iceland – with the famous trip of
Pytheas of
Marseille), it must have sounded incredible!
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Music accompaniment:
PartⅡ-Allegro—
Molto allegro—
Allargando
Part Ⅲ-Allegro risoluto alla marcia
Rimsky Korsakov:
Symphony No. 2 in
F sharp minor. "
Antar"
Ernest Ansermet (
Conductor)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Antar is a composition for symphony orchestra in four movements by the
Russian composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He wrote the piece in 1868 but revised it in 1875 and 1891. He initially called the work his
Second Symphony. He later reconsidered and called it a symphonic suite. It was first performed in
1869 at a concert of the
Russian Musical Society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antar_(Rimsky-Korsakov)
- published: 15 Aug 2015
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