place
Alexandria
Great Greek city of Egypt; cited in the jibe that brother–sister marriage, half-tolerated at Athens, was wholly accepted there.
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §8 Alexandria
The Hellenistic Egyptian capital, where (the gibe runs) such unions were wholly accepted.
- On Tranquility of Mind §9.5 Alexandria
The Egyptian city whose great royal Library --- Seneca says forty thousand rolls --- burned; he takes it as a monument not of learning but of ostentation.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §86.6 Alexandrian marbles
Colored stone shipped through Alexandria (porphyry and granites of Egypt), a byword for imported bath-house opulence.
- Natural Questions §4.2.18 Alexandria
The Egyptian metropolis, set far from the worst heat yet snowless.