The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

As its name indicates, the city was founded by
Alexander the Grieat. It was built in the form of an
open fan, or rather, of the outspread doak of a
Macedonian horseman. Altogether, it measured
(16,360 paces) 3,160 paces more than Rome; but
its houses were neither so crowded nor so
manynstoried. It had been a large city when Rome
was still inconsiderable, and to the last held the
second place in the Empire. One of the five
quarters into which the city was divided, and
which were named according to the first letters of
the alphabet, was wholly covered by the royal
palaces, with their gardens, and similar buildings,
including the royal mausoleum, where the body of
Alexander the Great, preserved in honey, was kept
in a glass coffin. But these, and its three miles of
colonnades along the principal highway, were only
some of the magnificent architectural adornments
of a city full of palaces. The population amounted,
probably, to nearly a million, drawn from the East
and West by trade, the attractions of wealth, the
facilities for study, or the amusements of a
singularly frivolous city. A strange mixture of