Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (44 page)

Algeria
199

Ali, Mohamed
92

Amen
68
,
111
,
121
,
129
,
132
,
133
,
134
,
222
,
248
n
18

Amen-Re
71
,
119
,
133

Amenhotep III
121
,
244
n
20

Amyntas of Lycaonia
177

Amyot, Jacques
213

animal cults
128–31
,
203

ankh
66
,
136

Ankhnesmerypepi II (queen consort)
241
n
2

Ankhwennefer (Theban counter-pharaoh)
227

Antigonid empire
222

Antigonos ‘the One-Eyed’, King of Macedon
209
,
222

Antioch
161
,
162
,
163
,
225

Antiochos III of Syria
25
,
226
,
227
,
228

Antiochos IV
229

Antiochos VIII
242
n
2

Antiochos IX
242
n
2

Antiochos X
242
n
2

Antirrhodos island
80
,
91
,
93

Anton (a son of Heracles)
146

Antonia (Antony’s daughter)
148

Antonia (Antony’s second wife)
148

Antonia Maior (Antony’s daughter)
159

Antonia Minor (Antony’s daughter)
159

Antoninus Pius, Emperor
121

Antony
4
,
7
,
32
,
37
,
188
,
209

family background
145–6

dissolute behaviour
146
,
147

military life
146

marriages
147–8

coinage
61
,
62

and Caesarion’s parentage
101

Caesar refuses his offer of a royal diadem tied with a lauyrel wreath
106–7

second triumvirate
143

controls Gaul and eastern provinces
144

financial matters
144–5
,
148
,
149
,
154
,
173

religious honour
145

appearance
146

feasts with Cleopatra in Tarsus
149–54

bargains with Cleopatra
154–5

orders execution of Arsinoë IV (41)
155
,
236

relaxes in Alexandria
155–6

a famous joker
156

Octavian erodes support for him in Rome
158

and Treaty of Brundisium
159

marries Octavia
159

settles in Athens
159

agreement to renew the triumvirate
161

negotiations with Cleopatra (37/6)
162

acknowledges the twins
162–3

Parthian humiliation
164

meets Cleopatra at Leuce Come, then retires to Alexandria
164

public rejection of Octavia
165

relationship with Octavian breaks down
165–6
,
169
,
171
,
173

reputation plummets
166

Dionysiac celebration in Alexandria
167–8

divorces Octavia
174

stripped of his titles by the Roman Senate
175

battle of Actium
176–80

failed attempts to influence Octavian
184
,
185

abandonment by his gods
185
,
255
n
12

loses battle with Octavian (30)
186

commits suicide, dying in Cleopatra’s arms
186–7

Cleopatra visits his tomb
190
,
195

interpretations of him since his death
206–10

De Sua Ebrietate (‘On His Sobriety)
173

Antyllus, Marcus Antonius
148
,
161
,
182
,
184
,
199

Anubeion, Sakkara necropolis
130

Anubis (jackal-headed god)
117
,
130
,
208

Apame
226

Apamea
166

Aphrodite
85
,
114
,
118
,
242
n
4

Aphrodite/Isis
170

Apion
79
,
211

Apis bull
43
,
89
,
129
,
130
,
138
,
203

Apollo
145
,
163
,
173
,
180

Apollo Tortor
173

Apollodorus
53
,
54

Apophis (serpent)
193

Appian
32
,
99
,
149

The Civil Wars
209

Appollonius:
Argonautica
82

Apuleius, Lucius:
The Golden Ass
(trans. William Adlington)
124–5

Aramaic
14
,
76

Archelaos
36
,
37
,
149
,
155
,
236

Archelaos of Cappadocia
177
,
202

Archibios
58

Ariadne
189

Aristarchus
82–3

Aristobulus
167

Aristotle
131
,
257
n
6

Armant Montu temple
119

birth house
109
,
119
,
121
,
127

Armenia
164
,
169

King of
17
,
181

Arrian
72–3

Arsinoë
12
,
146
,
224

Arsinoë I
134
,
224

Arsinoë II
32
,
68
,
138
,
223

marriage to Lysimachos of Thrace
224

masterminds death of Agathocles
224–5

marriage to Ptolemy Ceraunos
25
,
225

Ceraunos has her sons by Lysimachos murdered
225

marriage to Ptolemy II
25
,
46
,
133
,
224
,
225

influence on the developing role of the queen
225

deified after her death
67
,
88
,
134–6
,
225

Arsinoë III
138
,
226
,
227

Arsinoë IV, Queen of Egypt (47)
8
,
27
,
95
,
110
,
235

her tutor-guardian (Ganymede)
32
,
96
,
104