Inscriptions grecques d'Alexandrie ptolémaïque. BiEtud 133. Celte By the place it held

By the place it held in the life of the Roman citizen

These two characters with their astonishing lives provide him with the opportunity to introduce into his story those picturesque anecdotes that he considered essential to the biographical genre: small facts

The slums and disreputable inns frequented by the declassed echo the debauchery of imperial high society

Death was the continuity of their daily life in each of its actions and gestures

Inscriptions grecques d'Alexandrie ptolémaïque. BiEtud 133. Celte By the place it heldLe prsent ouvrage tudie un corpus de 79 inscriptions non funraires dAlexandrie ptolmaque dont la provenance est sre ou fort probable, dcouvertes au cours des XIXe et XXe sicles, et appartenant une priode qui va de la fondation dAlexandrie en 331 jusqu la conqute romaine en 30 av. J. C., cest dire environ deux sicles et demi.