Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (50 page)

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