Rafał Taubenschlag
"Alexandria ad Aegyptum", H. I. Bell,
"Journ. Rom. Stud.", 1946 : [recenzja]
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 3, 155
SURVEY OF LITERATURE 1 9 1 5 - 1 9 4 9 155 exclusively f r o m t h e k i n g ; c) A l e x a n d r i a c a n n o t be considered as t h e t h i r d Greek πόλις of E g y p t , because t h e t e r r i t o r y of a Greek city, once divided a m o n g its citizens belonged t o t h e m as t h e i r full p r o p e r t y , which was n o t t h e case in A l e x a n d r i a ; d) T h e c o m m u -n i t y of Alexa-ndria is a political a-nd -n o t a t e r r i t o r i a l e -n t i t y ; e) A l e x a n d r i a h a d n o t an a s s e m b l y of citizens a n d only a βουλή. A r a n g i o R u i z seems t o be inclined t o resolve all these difficul-ties b y a d m i t t i n g t h e c o n c e p t i o n of a personal u n i o n w i t h E g y p t . Η . I. B E L L , Alexandria ad Aegyptum (Journ. Rom. Stud. 1946
p p 1 3 0 - 1 3 2 ) .
I n this article sir H a r o l d s t r e n g h t e n s this t e r m i n o l o g y also for t h e R o m a n period a g a i n s t t h e d o u b t s raised b y S c h u l z , Journ.
Rom. Stud. 1943 p. 58.
P . J O U G U E T , Les assemblées d'Alexandrie à l'époque ptolémaique ( E x t r . du Bulletin de la Société Royale d' Archéologie d'Alexandrie № 37, 1948).
P l a u m a n n ' s inscription (cf. m y Law I I 13 f f ) p u b l . Klio X I I I (1913), p. 485, t h e l e t t e r of Claudius, a n d t h e p a p y r u s f r o m Flo-rence lead t o t h e admission of t h e existence of a βουλή in Ale-x a n d r i a a t least for one epoch. I t seems obvious t o t h i n k t h a t A l e x a n d e r t h e G r e a t e n d o w e d t h e city with a βουλή ; a n d t h a t c o n s e q u e n t l y t h e city possessed also an assembly. T h e A l e x a n d r i -nes seem t o h a v e i n h e r i t e d t h e a t t r i b u t i o n s of t h e M a c e d o n i a n a r m y , which did n o t exist a n y m o r e in t h e I I c e n t . T h e old deno-m i n a t i o n of t h e a s s e deno-m b l y of t h e Macedonian a r deno-m y ( p o p u l u s , 'όχλος, τα πλήθη) seem t o design n o w t h e people of A l e x a n d r i a . T h e ga-t h e r i n g s of ga-t h e A l e x a n d r i n e p o p u l a ga-t i o n are p r o b a b l y regular as-semblies, c o n v o c a t e d on d e t e r m i n e d occasions a n d a t periodical regular d a t e s .
P . J O U G U E T , Trois éludes sur l'hellénisme (Publ. de la Faculté
des lettres de l'Université Farouk 1er I (1944).
I t is a t r i p a r t i t e d i s s e r t a t i o n c o m p r e h e n d i n g : 1) T h e e m p i r e of A l e x a n d e r t h e G r e a t ; 2) T h e E g y p t i a n realm of t h e P t o l e m i e s ; 3) T h e rôle of A l e x a n d r i a . T h e j u r i s t is interested in t h e a u t h o r s r e m a r k s on Alexander as an oriental ruler p. 15, on t h e legal sta-t u s a n d sta-t h e a u sta-t o n o m y of A l e x a n d r i a as a Greek c i sta-t y p. 118, 119 ff. on t h e legal condition of Greeks a n d E g y p t i a n s in A l e x a n d r i a p. 78.
