Rafał Taubenschlag
"Les thiases dionysiaques royaux de
la cour ptolémaique", J. L. Tondriau,
"Chronique d’Egypte", no 41, 1946 :
[recenzja]
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 3, 154
154 JOURNAL OF PAPYROLOGY
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J . L. T O N D R I A U , Rois Lagides comparés ou identifiés à des
di-vinités (Chronique d'Êgypte 45/46 (1948) p p 1 2 7 - 1 4 6 ) .
T h e a u t h o r p r e s e n t s a collection of examples where t h e Ptole-maic kings are assimilated or identified with a c o m m o n l y k n o w n divinity.
J . L. T O N D R I A U , Notes Ptolémaïques (Aegyptus X X V I I I ( 1 - 2 ) (1948), 168/7).
F r o m these notes, № 2 on t h e origin of t h e title E p i p h a n e s a n d n o t e 3 on t h e „ n a v a l " royal cult are of interest for j u r i s t s . J . L. T O N D R I A U , Les thiases dionysiaques royaux de la cour
ptolémaique (Chronique d'Egypte № 41 (1946) p p 149—171).
This essay does n o t concern a t h i a s e with m y s t i c tendencies, or an association of dionysiac technitai or a p r i v a t e association for t h e unique p u r p o s e of d i s t r a c t i o n . W e h a v e t o do — in our case — w i t h a sort of a royal club, which a l t h o u g h n o t d e p r i v e d of a certain similitude w i t h t h e associations m e n t i o n e d a b o v e , p r e s e n t s n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g an original c h a r a c t e r p r o p e r t o t h e ale-x a n d r i n e royal court. T h e t h i a s e p u r s u e d aims of politico-religious n a t u r e , according with a d e f i n i t e policy of t h e d y n a s t y . T h e au-t h o r e x a m i n e s au-this au-t h i a s e only for au-t h e reigns w h e n iau-ts exisau-tence seems t o be sufficiently p r o v e d i. e. d u r i n g t h e reigns of P t o l e m y I V P h i l o p a t o r , P t o l e m y X I I Auletes a n d f i n a l l y Cleopatra a n d Marc A n t h o n y .
S C H W A R T Z J A C Q U E S , L . Mussius Aemilianus, préfet d'Egypte
(Bull, de la Soc. Royale d'Archéologie d'Alexandrie № 37 (1948)
p. 3 4 - 4 6 ) . N o t seen.
Y. A R A N G I O R U I Z , L'enigma costituzionale délia antica Alesadria
(Nuova Antologia a n n o 82 fasc. 1757 maggio 1947 p. 59—65).
I n t h i s essay, A r a n g i o R u i z underlines some peculiarities of t h e c o n s t i t u t i o n of A l e x a n d r i a : a) Alexandria is t h e c a p i t a l of E g y p t . H o w e v e r it never b e a r s t h e n a m e Alexandria Aegypti b u t is called Alexandria ad Aegyptum; b) I t is impossible t o consider A l e x a n d r i a as a sovereign s t a t e a n d E g y p t e as a d o m i n i o n or co-lony of it. E g y p t does n o t belong t o t h e Alexandrines, w h o h a v e no ingerence in t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n of t h e c o u n t r y , which d e p e n d s
