Vivre et mourir en Égypte, d’Alexandre le Grand à Cléopâtre

Egypt was conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and, on the death of the Macedonian conqueror, came under the control of his general Ptolemy son of Lagos. Proclaimed king in 305 BC, Ptolemy I laid the foundations of a dynasty that remained in power for three centuries, until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC. 

For a long time, the Ptolemaic period was seen as a period of Greek control over Egypt, but recent research has shown that Egyptian and Greek cultures actually met, intermingled and adapted at all levels of society, giving rise to a truly Greek-Egyptian state.

This book explores the meeting of Egyptian and Greek cultures in political, religious, economic, social and cultural life, as well as in funerary traditions. Special attention is paid to Pierre Jouguet's excavations in the Fayum at the beginning of the 20th century, which provide a wealth of information on the daily life, funerary traditions and administration of a rapidly developing province. Finally, part of the book is devoted to the collection of Jean-Ernest Godard, which forms the core of the Egyptological collection of the Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux.