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Authors: Joyce Tyldesley
Tags: #History, #Ancient, #Egypt, #Biography & Autobiography, #Presidents & Heads of State
Domitian
185
Donations of Alexandria
168
double uraeus
68
,
111
,
134
dowager queens (‘king’s mothers’)
26
Drusilla (daughter of Ptolemy of Mauretania)
202
Durrell, Lawrence
6
dynastic Egypt: defined
xiv
E
Edfu (Apollinopolis Magna)
126
,
127
temple of Horus
65
,
122
,
225
,
226
,
244
n
21
,
246
n
18
Edwards, Amelia B.
122–4
Egypt
Persian invasion (343)
132
Alexander the Great takes
2
,
71
,
219
,
221
Lagid (Ptolemaic) empire
222
Ptolemy I takes control of
221
expansion of territories
223
contraction during Ptolemy V’s reign
228
immigration
18–21
,
77
,
228
Ptolemy VI regains many lost territories
230
decaying power of
2
population
13–14
Upper/Lower Egypt
14
wealth
15
,
143
,
149
fertile and ill-defended
33
willed by Ptolemy X to Rome
11
,
33
,
233–4
Ptolemy XII buys a few years independence
34
grain crisis
46–7
Pompey flees to
49–50
Pompey is assassinated
51
,
237
becomes a Roman protectorate in all but name
98
Octavian annexes (30)
2
,
198
,
237
falls to Islamic forces (AD 640)
211
becomes isolated from the Christian world
211–12
Egyptian army
Greek mercenaries in
18
surrenders to Caesar (47)
97
Antony’s cavalry deserts (30)
186
infantry heavily defeated by Octavian
186
Egyptian art
64–7
,
111
Egyptian fleet
Greek mercenaries in
18
Caesar torches the fleet in Alexandria’s harbour
95
seriously damaged en route to Greece (42)
144
surrenders to Octavian
186
Egyptology
2
,
101
Eiras (Cleopatra’s hairdresser)
186
,
191
Eirene (Ptolemy VIII’s mistress)
231
Elephantine island
76
Elizabeth I, Queen
214
Emesa
166
Empereur, Jean-Yves
91
Epaphroditus
187
,
191
Ephesus
temple of Artemis
37
,
104
,
144
,
145
Arsinoë IV buried at
155
Cleopatra and Antony assemble a fleet (33/2)
173
epic, the
82
Erasistratus
82
Eratosthenes
82
Eros
118
,
242
n
4
Eros (Antony’s slave)
186
eternal life
31
Etruria
175
Euclid:
Elements
82
Eulaeus
229
Eunoe
56
eunuchs
85
Euphrates River
166
,
169
,
225
Eurocentrism
29
Eurydice of Macedon
222
,
223
Eusebius:
Chronicle
35–6
Eve
213
exedra
130–31
Eye
67
F
Fadia (Mark Antony’s first wife)
147–8
Faiyum
15
,
26
,
37
,
44
,
135
,
161
Faiyum Oasis
20
,
224
fasces
52
‘Feast of the Divine Twelve, The’ (
cena dodekatheos
)
173
Festival of the Beautiful Union
122
Field of Mars, Rome
103
,
204
Flavia
7–8
Forum, Rome
103
,
172
Franzero, Carlo Maria:
The Life and Times of Cleopatra
(revised as
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt
)
216
,
242
n
5
,
259
n
16
Fulvia (Mark Antony’s third wife)
148
,
156
,
158
,
159
,
161
,
166
G
Gabinians
47
,
49
,
50
,
53
,
57
,
95
Gabinius, Aulus
37
,
38
,
47
,
56
,
149
Gallus, Cornelius
184
,
187
,
203
Gallus, Quintus Fadius
147–8
Ganymede
32
,
96
,
104
Gardens of Sallust, Rome
134
Gaul
103
,
144
,
159
Gautier, Théophile:
Une Nuit de Cléopâtre
197
Geb (earth god)
24
,
43
,
134
,
183
Giza desert cemetery
70
Glaphyra
148–9
Glaucus (sea god)
156
Gonzales, Gianna Terribili
258
n
15
Goza
69
Gracchus, Tiberius
103
Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria
124
Grant, Michael:
Cleopatra
140
Graves, Robert
125
,
169
Greece
recruitment to live in Alexandria
76
Antigonid empire of
222
Greek immigration
18
,
19–22
Egypt–Greece trade in Naukratis
18
encouraged by Ptolemy I
18
Ptolemais Hormou serves as a Greek regional capital
18–19
institutional racism
19–20
self-imposed segregation
20
Egyptian influences
20
countryside settlement
20–21
Greek-Egyptian marriage
21–2
Greek language
14
,
20
Greek law
14
,
22
,
242
n
5
Guardian
, The
242
n
7
Gulf of Ambracia
176
,
178
Gulf of Suez
181
,
224
H