Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (47 page)

day-to-day work
160–61

negotiations with Antony (37/6)
162

the wealthiest monarch in the world
162

meets Antony at Leuce Come, then retires to Alexandria
164

and Herod
166–7

Octavian declares war on her
175

battle of Actium
176–80

killing spree in Alexandria
181

amasses a huge war chest
181

experiments with poisons
183

negotations with Octavian
183–4

barricades herself in her mausoleum with her treasure
186

Antony dies in her arms
186–7

stabs herself when captured
187–8

meeting with Octavian
188–9

visits Antony’s tomb
190
,
195

requests to be buried beside Antony
191

suicide
190–93
,
197–8
,
213

historical significance of her death
202

interpretations of her since her death
205–17

death iii,
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30
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74
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122
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237
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256
n
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Cleopatra Berenice III Thea Philopator (Father-Loving Goddess), Queen of Egypt (81–80)
32
,
44

married to Ptolemy X
24
,
234

inherits her father’s throne
10
,
234

married to Ptolemy XI
10

popularity
234

murdered by Ptolemy XI
11
,
234

her reign is effectively erased from the record
12

Cleopatra Selene (Cleopatra VII’s twin daughter)
11
,
33
,
157
,
159
,
162–3
,
168
,
169
,
199–202
,
238

Cleopatra Thea, Queen of Syria
62
,
139
,
164
,
232

Cleopatra’s Needles (London and New York)
91–2

Clino (Ptolemy II’s mistress)
85

Clodius, Publius
148

Coele-Syria (‘Hollow Syria’)
162
,
168
,
222

Colbert, Claudette
216
,
258
n
15

Coogan, J.
205
,
257
n
1

Corfu (Corecyna)
161
,
176

Cornelia (Caesar’s first wife)
49
,
50
,
51
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56
,
103

cornucopia
66–7
,
136

cow horns
68
,
111
,
122
,
124
,
134

Crassus (Candidus), Publius
160
,
177
,
180

Crassus, Marcus Licinius
34
,
47
,
49
,
56
,
145

creation myth
67

Crete
169

Creticus, Antonius
145

Crinagoras
201–2

Ctesibius
83

Ctesicles
22–3
,
161

cult temples
126–7
,
131
,
252
n
14

Curtius, Ludwig
60

Cydnus River
149

Cynthia (Propertius’s mistress)
208

Cyprus
222
,
233
,
234

and contraction of the Egyptian empire
228

Ptolemy VI flees to
229

Ptolemy VIII and
230
,
232

Ptolemies IX and X
233
,
234

annexed by Romans
35
,
235

Pompey in
49

Arsinoë IV and Ptolemy XIV rule
58

Cleopatra VII rules
162
,
168
,
250
n
21

Cyrenaica
168
,
169
,
225
,
228
,
230
,
231

Cytheris, Volumnia
148

D

Damascus
73
,
166

Dante Alighieri:
Inferno
51

Darius III

defeated at Issus (333)
221

Alexander marches to confront him (331)
219

assassination of
221

Dead Sea
162

Deianeira
12

Deinocrates of Rhodes
73

Deir el-Bahri mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
92

Deir el-Medina
86

Hathor temple
244
n
21

Dellius, Quintus
149

Delos island
114

Delphi
115

Demeter (Greek earth goddess)
85
,
114

Demetrios I Poliorcetes, King of Macedon
209

Demetrios the Fair
226

Demetrios (philosopher)
13

demotic script
14
,
20

Den, King
65

Dendera (Tentyra) temple of Hathor
6
,
33
,
39
,
65
,
121–4
,
126
,
127
,
224
,
244
n
21

Dido, Queen of Carthage
207

Didyma (Ptolemy II’s mistress)
84

Dio Cocceianus, Cassius
49
,
63–4
,
74–5
,
97–8
,
101
,
105
,
150
,
165
,
168
,
172
,
174
,
177
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178
,
179
,
181
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182
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184
,
186
,
187–8
,
191–2
,
199
,
204
,
209
,
210–11

Roman History
7
,
210

Diomedes (Cleopatra’s secretary)
186

Dion of Alexandria
37

Dionochares
88

Dionysos (comic actor)
22
,
23

Dionysos (Greek deity)
5
,
12
,
13
,
84
,
85
,
87
,
89
,
133
,
145
,
167
,
172
,
173
,
194
,
251
n
6

cult of
131
,
146

Dionysos Omestes 1273

Dionysos-Osiris
149
,
163
,
170
,
186

Diophanes
161

Djoser, King
102
,
130

Dolabella, Publius Cornelius
143
,
148