Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (52 page)

Passover
77

pastoral mode
82

Paulina, Lollia
154

peasants
15
,
47

Pedibastet III
142

Pedius, Quintus
107

Pelusium
37
,
49
,
50
,
52
,
53
,
57
,
95
,
97
,
158
,
184

Penthesilea
208

Per-Ramesses (Tell ed Daba)
71

Pergamon
172

Persia
168

see also
Iran

Persians

Egyptian dislike of
219

Jews’ friendly attitude towards
77

invasion of Egypt (343)
143

Perusia (Perugia)
158
,
159

Petersen, Wolfgang
216

Petesenufe, Scribe of the Book of Isis
139

Petesouchos
248
n
18

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
68

Phamenoth
42

Pharmaces II
103

Pharos island
72
,
80
,
81
,
95
,
212

fort of Sultan Qait Bey
81

lighthouse
81
,
91
,
104
,
213
,
223

Pharsalus, Thessaly
49

Philadelphos (a goddess)
135

Philadelphos of Paphlagonia
177

Philae
126
,
139
,
205

temple of Isis
136
,
223
,
244
n
21

kiosk of Nectanebo I
244
n
21

Philip II of Macedon
220

Philip III Arrhidaeos, King of Egypt (323–316)
220
,
221

Philip (Pompey’s freedman)
50
,
51

Philista
161

Philotera
223

Phoenecia
162

Phraates IV of Parthia
257
n
4

Pinarius, Lucius
107

Piraeus
114

Pisaurum (modern Pesaro, Umbria)
175

Plancus, L. Munatius
153
,
156
,
171–2
,
254
n
20

Plato
131
,
162

Pliny the Elder
88
,
91
,
152
,
153
,
154

Plutarch
28
,
32–3
,
37
,
48
,
49
,
53
,
54
,
58
,
63
,
71–2
,
96
,
125
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
149–52
,
155
,
156
,
161–2
,
165
,
175
,
177
,
178
,
179
,
183
,
186
,
187
,
188
,
192
,
194
,
209

Life of Antony
7
,
100–101

Life of Caesar
100

Of Isis and Osiris
115–17

Parallel Lives
209–10
,
213–14

Polemon of Pontus
177

Pollux
248
n
18

Polybius
210

History
85

polygamy
26–7

Pompeia (Caesar’s second wife)
56

Pompey, Gnaeus
47
,
50
,
170

Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius)
56
,
148
,
150
,
170
,
200
,
209

accepts a golden crown from Auletes
34

‘first triumvirate’
34

Auletes stays at his villa
35

offers to support Auletes
36

and Auletes’s will
39–40
,
49

loses battle at Pharsalus
49

flees to Egypt
49–50

assassinated in Egypt
51
,
237

ashes returned to his wife
51

Caesar and Pompey’s severed head
51
,
80

Pompey, Sextus
49
,
144
,
161
,
164
,
171

‘Pompey’s Pillar’, Alexandria
90

Pontus
103

Porphyrius of Tyre
35
,
36

Pothinos
46
,
49
,
52–3
,
95
,
96

prenomen
119

priests
15
,
17
,
126
,
127
,
203

princesses (‘king’s daughters’)
26

Proculeius, Gaius
187

Propertius, Sextus
197–8
,
208

psylli
(Libyan snake-charmers)
191

Ptah (creator god)
11
,
30
,
43
,
70
,
89
,
129
,
130

Ptolemaia (four-yearly Dionysiac festival)
86–7

Ptolemais (daughter of Ptolemy I)
222

Ptolemais Hormou (el-Mansha, near Sohag)
18–19
,
134
,
222
,
242
n

Ptolemy I Soter I (Saviour), King of Egypt (304–284)
10
,
12
,
81

family background
75
,
221

Cleopatra as a direct descendant
29

Macedonian general
221

captures Bessus
221

campaigns in India
221

coronation
75
,
221

appearance
62
,
221–2

imaginative economist and competent scholar
222

establishes Alexandria Museion and its library
222

family life
222–3

encourages immigration
18
,
77

development of Alexandria
77
,
90

Ptolomaeae
86
,
87

and Serapis
88
,
89

develops link between royal family and gods
133

temple building and restoration
133

deified
133

Mendes Stela
135

Ptolemy II Philadelphos (Brother-Loving), King of Egypt (285–246)
10
,
25
,
32
,
67
,
163

co-regent alongside Ptolemy I
223