Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (48 page)

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