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Sparte hellénistique, IVe-IIIe siècle avant notre ère (Paris, 6-7 avril 2012), J. Christien et B.
Legras éd., Besançon, Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne-Supplément 11, 2014, p. 193-202.
Summary: Among the Greek-speaking immigrants of Ptolemaic Egypt were men and women
from the south of the Peloponnese. The sources mention an ethnic group of four Spartans, seven
Lacedaemonians and five Laconians. The group actually consisted of fifteen people, because
King Cleomenes III is referred to either as a Lacedaemonian or as a Spartan. The aim of this
article is to determine the role and place of this Spartan diaspora in the Hellenistic kingdom using
different source types - literary, epigraphical and papyrological. They enable us to establish their
presence at the royal court of Alexandria, in its religious life and tourism, and lastly in its social
and economic life.
Keywords: court of Alexandria; Cleomenes III; tourism; loan contract; Koptos; Muziris