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Authors: Joyce Tyldesley
Tags: #History, #Ancient, #Egypt, #Biography & Autobiography, #Presidents & Heads of State
King List
45
kingship, semi-divine
16
,
38
Kom el-Ahmar, temple to Osiris
222
Kom el-Dik, Alexandria
5
Kom Ombo
244
n
21
Koptos
183
,
198
gateway to the Geb temple
43
,
244
n
21
Isis temple
68
temple of Geb
68
,
127
Serapeum
90
L
Lagid (Ptolemaic) empire
222
Lagos of Eordaea and Arsinoë
73–4
,
75
,
221
Lake Moeris (Lake Canopus)
72
,
77
,
78
,
79
Late Period
91
Lavicum estate, Monte Compatri, Latium
107
Lebanon
222
Leigh, Vivien
258
n
15
Lenaeus
229
Leontopolis (modern Tell el Yahudeyeh)
77
,
141
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
143
,
144
,
164
,
171
Lepsius, Karl Richard
121
Lesbos
49
Leuce Come (White Village)
164
Library, Alexandria
6
,
8
,
39
,
82
,
91
,
95
,
130
,
222
,
231
Libya
168
Lagid (Ptolemaic) empire
222
Libyan Desert
133
Libyans
31
literary theory and criticism
82
Livia Drusilla
7–8
,
169
,
171
,
188
,
189
,
206
Livy
210
Lochias peninsula
80
,
182
London: Cleopatra’s Needle
91–2
Louvre, Paris
44
,
101
Lucan
94–5
,
100
Lucian
13
Lucius Antonius
158
,
159
Lupercalia
106–7
Luxor temple
132
Lysandra (daughter of Ptolemy I)
222
,
224–5
Lysimachos of Thrace
224
,
225
maat
111
,
131
M
Maat (goddess)
111
Maccabaeus, Judas
77
Maccabaeus, Simon
245
n
11
Macedon/Macedonia
Antigonid empire of
222
polygamous kings of
27
kingdom of
29
people of
29
elite/non-elite
30
recruitment to live in Alexandria
76
two battles of Philippi (42)
144
,
158
Macurdy, Grace:
Hellenistic Queens
94
Magus, King of Cyrenaica
25
,
223
,
225
Malchus of Nabataea
177
,
182
Manetho of Sebennytos (modern Sammanud)
88
,
224
,
241
n
3
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
216
,
242
n
5
Marcella (Octavian’s daughter)
199
Marcus Antonius Felix, procurator of Judaea
202
Mark, St
248
n
8
Mark Antony
see
Antony marriage
on Octavian iii
Greek-Egyptian
21–2
with a foreigner
170
Mars (god of war)
49
Mauretania (modern western Algeria and northern Morocco)
199
,
200
Maut (Mut)
123
Medes, king of the
177
medicine
89–90
Mediterranean Sea
78
,
196
Mehen (snake god)
193
Meleager
222
‘melon coiffure’
60
Memphis
78
,
99
,
100
,
113
,
219
rival court of Ptolemy VI
229
Ptolemy XII crowned in
11
cult centre of Ptah
43
,
70
first and most ancient Egyptian capital city
70
administrative centre of Egypt
70–71
Alexander first interred in
74
stripped of its antiquities to ornament Alexandria
91
Ptah temple
130
,
132
Greek-style games at
132
Mendes Stela
135
Meretseger (‘She Who Loves Silence’) (a cobra-goddess)
193
Meritneith (queen consort)
241
n
2
Mesopotamia
222
Metella
153
Methone
174
,
176
Middle Kingdom
15
,
91
Min (fertility god)
43
,
111
,
183
Minerva
185–6
,
208
Mithras
251
n
6
Mithridates VI of Pontus
36
,
103
,
154
Mithridates of Commagene
177
Mithridates of Pergamon
97
Mnesitheus
84
Mnevis bull, cult of the
43
modius
(platform crown)
67
,
89
,
122
,
124
Mond, Robert and Myers, Oliver:
Geographical Journal
109
Montu (warrior god)
41
,
111
,
121
Morgan, J.
205
,
257
n
1
Morocco
199
mortuary temples
252
n
14
mother goddesses
112
,
113
Mount Casius (Ras Baron)
49
Mount Haemus
194
Mount Nysa
87
Mount Olympus
5
mummification
Greeks’ adoption of
20
of Bakhu
41
animals
129
,
130
decline in standards of human mummification
130
kings made fully divine
131
a lengthy ritual
195
mummies found in Alexandria
196
Museion, Alexandria
32
,
79
,
80
,
82–3
,
222
,
223
,
231
Myers, Oliver
see
Mond, Robert
Myos Hormos
198
Myrtium (Ptolemy II’s mistress)
85
N
Nabataea
162