Read Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt Online
Authors: Joyce Tyldesley
Tags: #History, #Ancient, #Egypt, #Biography & Autobiography, #Presidents & Heads of State
Caracalla, Emperor
75
Carcopino, J.:
Passion et politique chez les Césars
250
n
21
Carrhae (modern Harran, Turkey)
47
Carry on Cleo
(comedy film)
258
n
15
cartonnage
160
,
245
n
7
cartouches
119
,
121
,
123
,
124
,
203
Cassius
108
,
143
,
144
,
155
Castor
248
n
18
Catholic cemetery, Alexandria
5
Cato, Marcus Porcius (Cato the Younger)
35
Cecil Hotel, Alexandria
6
Ceres
60
Champollion, Jean-François
20
,
228
chaos (
isfet
)
111
,
131
Charmian (Cleopatra’s lady-in-waiting)
186
,
191
Chaucer, Geoffrey:
Legend of Good Women
213
Cherchell museum
200
Christian Church
213
Christianity
114
,
139
chronology of Ancient Egypt
239–40
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
32
,
55–6
,
105
,
107–8
Cilicia
49
,
144
,
162
,
169
Claudius, Emperor
159
,
202
Clea (priestess in the cult of Isis, Delphi)
115
Cleopatra
(film)
216
,
242
n
5
Cleomenes of Naukratis
73
,
76
‘Cleopatra had a Jazz Band’
205
,
257
n
1
Cleopatra I
32
,
45
,
62
,
137
marriage to Ptolemy V
25
,
228
of Macedonian-Persian descent
31
,
228
influence of
228
regent and guardian for Ptolemy VI
136
,
228
a goddess in her own lifetime
136
death
228
,
229
Cleopatra II
32
,
45
,
62
,
77
marriage to her brother Ptolemy VI
137
,
229
,
232
children of
231–2
supports the Jews
232
rules Egypt with Ptolemies VI and VIII
229
,
230
rules with Ptolemy VIII
137
,
229
ménage à trois with Cleopatra III and Ptolemy VIII
137–8
,
231
,
232
rules Egypt alone
232
flees to Syria on Ptolemy VIII’s return from Cyprus
231
,
232
brief rule with Cleopatra III and Ptolemy IX
233
death of
232
,
233
Cleopatra III
11
,
32
,
45
,
77
,
137
,
232
marriage to Ptolemy VIII
231
,
232
flees to Cyprus with her husband
231
ménage à trois with Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra II
137–8
,
231
,
232
brief rule with Cleopatra II and Ptolemy IX
233
coinage
62
becomes the living embodiment of Isis
138
,
139
Cleopatra IV (116–115)
11
Cleopatra V Tryphaena (Opulent One)
8
,
23
,
24
,
28
,
30
,
36
,
39
,
235
,
236
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (Opulent One)
27
,
35
,
36
,
235
,
236
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Father-Loving Goddess), Queen of Egypt
(51–30)
235
fame of
2–3
,
9
birth (69)
27
,
28
illegitimacy issue
27–8
racial heritage
29
,
30–32
a direct descendant of Ptolemy I
29
education
32–3
personality
4
,
5
,
7
,
46
,
157
,
209
co-regency with brother Ptolemy XIII
5
,
40
,
42
,
44
,
46
,
58
,
94
,
237
marriage issue
43
,
44
only surviving image of her as a female king
44
,
45
and Hatshepsut
45
features as a sole ruler on a limestone stela
44–5
,
46
growing unpopularity in Alexandria
48
alliances with powerful Romans
4
,
48
flees to Syria and raises an army
48
coinage
49
,
54
,
60–62
,
118
,
136
,
140–41
,
164
,
196
,
205
,
246
n
18
,
250
n
21
encamped east of Pelusium
52
bedroll story
53–5
,
57
images of
54
,
58–69
,
118
,
121
,
122
,
136
,
205
attractiveness to Caesar
63–4
in the Alexandrian Wars
96
,
101
co-regency with brother Ptolemy
XIV
5
,
97–8
,
101
her barge
99
,
100
strengthens her hold on the throne
103
in Rome
104
,
105–6
returns to Alexandria (44)
108
possible murder of her brother
4
,
110
co-regency with son Caesarion (Ptolemy XV)
5
,
102
,
142–3
,
168–9
new identity of semi-divine mother
110
,
118
and cult of Isis
103
,
110
,
139
,
149
,
174
,
198
,
205
the Dendera Cleopatra
121
,
122
develops her own powerful divinity
139
Cassius appeals to her for aid
143
summoned to Tarsus by Antony
149
feasts with Antony in Tarsus
149–54
pearl-drinking stories
152–4
poisoned flowers story
154
bargains with Antony
154–5
twins by Antony
157–8
,
162