I · The Founding · 321/320 BCE
Ptolemy brings Alexander's body to Egypt
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Ptolemy, satrap of Egypt, diverts Alexander's funeral cortège to Memphis. The body later lies in the Sema at Alexandria, the royal tomb whose cult gave the dynasty that founded the Library its standing.
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Sources (5)
- Diodorus Siculus 18.28.2–6
- Strabo, Geography 17.1.8
- Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.6.3
- Curtius Rufus 10.10.20
- P. M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972)