Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (42 page)

Vasunia, P. (2001),
The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander
, University of California Press, Berkeley

Walker, S. and Ashton, S.-A. (2006),
Cleopatra
, Bristol Classical Press, Bristol

Walker, S. and Ashton, S.-A., eds (2003),
Cleopatra Reassessed
, British Museum Occasional Papers 103, London

Walker, S. and Higgs, P., eds (2001),
Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
, British Museum Publications, London

Whitehorn, J. (1994),
Cleopatras
, Routledge, London and New York

Weigall, A. (1914, revised edition 1924),
The Life and Times of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt: A Study in the Origin of the Roman Empire
, G. P. Putnam’s and Sons, New York, and Knickerbocker Press, London

Witt, R.E. (1971),
Isis in the Ancient World
, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London (originally published as
Isis in the Graeco-Roman World
)

Wyke, M. (2002),
The Roman Mistress; Ancient and Modern Representations
, Oxford University Press, Oxford

List of Illustrations

1. Alexander the Great. From the British Museum © the Trustees of the British Museum.

2. Ptolemy XII ‘The New Dionysos’. From the Louvre Museum © RPL.

3. Dionysos. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin © RPL.

4. Ptolemaic papyrus. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin © RPL.

5. Limestone stela. From the Louvre Museum © RPL.

6. Portrait head, believed to be Cleopatra VII. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin © RPL.

7. Marble portrait of Cleopatra VII. From the Vatican Museum © Sandro Vannini / Corbis.

8. ‘Cleopatra restored’. From the Vatican Museum © RPL.

9.  Egyptian Cleopatra. From the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg © Sandro Vannini / Corbis.

10. Arsinoë II. From the British Museum © the Trustees of the British Museum.

11. Cleopatra II or Cleopatra III? From the Louvre Museum © RPL.

12. Romans relaxing on the Nile. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin © RPL.

13. Ptolemy II © RPL.

14. Mosaic depicting Berenice II. From the Graeco—Roman Museum, Alexandria © RPL.

15. Julius Caesar. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin © RPL.

16. Isis and Dionysos as snakes. From the British Museum © the Trustees of the British Museum.

17. The ‘Alabaster Tomb’ of Alexandria © RPL.

18. Serapis. From the Vatican Museum © RPL.

19. Osiris. From the Manchester Museum © RPL.

20. The Egyptian goddess Isis. From ‘The Tomb of Siptah’ illustrated by E. Harold Jones, published in
The Tomb of Siptah
by Theodore Davis (1908).

21. Isis as mother. From the Staatliche Museum, Berlin © RPL.

22. Amaryllis. From the National Museum, Athens © RPL.

23. Isis carrying the sistrum. From the Capitoline Museum, Rome © RPL.

24. Cleopatra and Caesarion. From the Dendera Temple © RPL.

25. Mark Antony. From Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection © NTPL / Paul Mulcahy.

26. Octavian: the Emperor Augustus. From the National Museum, Athens © RPL.

Page 61 – Tetradrachm of Cleopatra VII. From the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool © RPL.

Page 71 – Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great. From the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool © RPL.

Page 75 – Tetradrachm of Ptolemy I. From the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool © RPL.

Page 120 – Armant scene recorded by Lepsius (Denkmäler IV, 60a and 59b).

Page 123 – ‘Cleopatra’. From A.B. Edwards,
A Thousand Miles up the Nile
(1877).

Page 160 – Tetradrachm of Mark Antony. From the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool © RPL.

Family Tree and Maps

Family Tree adapted from Walker S. and Higgs P., eds (2001),
Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
, British Museum Publications, London.

Cleopatra’s World adapted from Walker S. and Higgs P., eds (2001),
Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
, British Museum Publications, London.

Cleopatra’s Egypt adapted from Höbl G. (2001),
A History of the Ptolemaic Empire
. Translated by T. Saavedra, Routledge, London and New York.

Cleopatra’s Alexandria adapted from various sources.

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Acknowledgements