Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (55 page)

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Authors: Joyce Tyldesley

Tags: #History, #Ancient, #Egypt, #Biography & Autobiography, #Presidents & Heads of State

Serapis (a god)
88–9
cult of
133
Servilia
49
,
56
,
103
Seth
24
,
115
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
122
Seti I
91
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
81
Shakespeare, William
48
,
198
,
217
,
258
n
14
Antony and Cleopatra
213
,
214–15
Coriolanus
213
Julius Caesar
213
Shu (dry god of the air)
24
,
67
Sibylline Oracles
175–6
Sicily
144
Siculus, Diodorus
13
,
128
Sinai
37
land bridge
76
,
184
Sinope
89
Siwa Oasis
221
temple of Jupiter-Ammon
74
oracle of Zeus-Ammon
133
slavery, slaves
20
,
56
,
85
,
95
,
146
,
158
,
170
,
186
,
243
n
14
Smyrna
144
snake-bite, suicide by
191–3
snakes
193–4
Sobek
183
Sobeknofru (queen regent)
241
n
2
Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle
9
Soknebtynis
222
solar cults
68
solar disc
122
,
124
,
134
Soma royal cemetery, Alexandria
74
,
75
,
79–80
Sosibios
highly influential
226
purges the royal family
226
Ptolemy II plays a joke on him
156–7
sudden death
227
Sosius, Gaius
173
Sostratos of Knidos
81
Sotades the Obscene
25
Sothis (Sirius or Sepedet)
115
Spain
181
Caesar’s campaign in
104
,
108
sphinxes
86
,
91
,
130
,
131
,
203–4
stephane
(raised diadem)
118
Stone, Oliver
216
Strabo
12–13
,
27–8
,
36
,
39
,
82
Geography
79–80
strategoi
(generals)
19
Stratonice (Ptolemy II’s mistress)
85
Suetonius
55
,
74
,
95
,
99
,
101
,
153
,
169
,
202
The Divine Augustus
209
The Divine Julius
209
suicide
189–90
,
213
Sulla, General
11
,
234
sun disc
68
Sunnaoi Theoi (‘Temple-Sharing Gods’)
135
symposium
(male after-dinner drinking club)
83–4
Syria
Seleucid empire of
222
Eulaeus and Lenaeus provoke a new Syrian war
229
Antiochos IV’s attack on Alexandria
229
Cleopatra II flees to
231
,
232
Cleopatra VII flees to
48
Cassius occupies
143
Parthians attack (40)
158
Antony’s Parthian campaign
164
Ptolemy Philadelphos given parts of
169

T

Ta-nt Bastet
130
Taenarum (modern Cape Matapan)
180
Tanis (San el-Hagar)
71
Tarentum (Taranto)
161
Tarn, W.W.:
Cambridge Ancient History
171
Tarsus
149
,
162
Taweret
248
n
18
Tawosret (queen regent)
241
n
2
tax collectors
19
,
141
taxation
21
,
37
,
52
,
127
,
135
,
149
,
162
Tayimhotep
44
,
142
Taylor, Elizabeth
216
,
258
n
15
Tebtynis, temple to Soknebtynis
222
Tefnut (goddess of moisture)
24
,
67
Terenuthis, temple to Hathor
222
Terra Santa Catholic cemetery, Alexandria
74
Tertia (Servilia’s daughter)
56
Tertulla (Tertia), wife of Cassius
107–8
Tetisheri (queen consort)
241
n
2
Thames River
92
Thea Neotera (Younger Goddess)
139
Thea Notera Philopator kai Philopatris (the Father-Loving and Homeland-Loving Younger Goddess)
164
Thebes
42
,
43
,
78
,
126
,
193
the ever-rebellious southern capital
48
,
100
,
222
home of Amen-Re
71
home and burial place of the elite
71
civil unrest immediately after Cleopatra’s death
198–9
Theocritus
22
,
25
Idylls
82
Theodorus (Antyllus’s tutor)
199
Theodotus of Chios
32
,
46
,
50
Theoi Adelphoi
135
Theoi Neoi Phaldephoi (New Sibling-Loving Gods)
38
Theoi Philopatores Philadelphoi (the Father-loving, Brother/Sister-Loving Gods)
98
Theoi Soteres (‘Saviour Gods’)
133
Theoxena (possible daughter of Ptolemy I)
222
Thessalonica (Salonica)
49
Thinis
18
Third Syrian War (246–241)
225
Thisbe
189
Thoth (scribe of the gods)
129
,
137
,
248
n
18
Thrace
225
Thyrsus
183–4
Tiber River
104
,
105
Tiglath-Pileser
197
Timon of Phleius
82
Timoneion shrine, Lochias peninsula
182
Timotheos of Athens
88
Titius, Marcus
171–2
titularies
119
Tiy (queen consort)
241
n
2
,
247
n
26
Trastevere, Rome
104
tripartite wig
66
,
69
,
122
,
124
triple uraeus
66
,
67–8
,
247
n
27

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