GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the chapters that follow I discuss four poets: Posidippus, Theocritus, Callimachus and Apollonius, who together belong to the first generation of poets and are at the apex of Alexandrian achievement.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first pure philosophy of the Alexandrian school was Neopythagoreanism, the second and last Neoplatonism. Their doctrines were a synthesis of Platonism, Stoicism and the later Aristotelianism with a dose of oriental mysticism which gradually became more and more important.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although the books of the New Testament (as we have them today) were written elsewhere, Alexandria was the most important root for the theology of Christianity and that it spread from there to the rest of the Roman Empire, that is, the known parts of Africa, Asia and Europe.