Cleopatra (43 page)

Asiatics
31

Asklepios (Greek god of healing)
89

Aswan
76
,
92
,
99

Athenaeus
84
,
86
,
99
,
151
,
156

Athene (goddess)
114

Athens
159
,
164
,
165
,
174

Athribis: sanctuary of Triphis
244
n
21

Atia
145

Atticus
105

Atum, first king of Egypt
67

Augustan law
245
n
4

Auletes
see
Ptolemy XII

B

Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar’s palace
73

Bacchus
see
Dionysos

Bara, Theda
215–16
,
258
n
15

Barrie, Amanda
258
n
15

Bast (cat goddess)
130
,
248
n
18

Bat (cow goddess)
113

Behbeit el-Haga: Iseion
68

Berenice I
31
,
133
,
223

Berenice II
25
,
31
,
138
,
224
,
225–6

Berenice III
see
Cleopatra Berenice III

Berenice IV, Queen of Egypt (58–55)
8
,
23
,
27
,
149

has first husband, Seleucos, murdered
36
,
235–6

reign of
32
,
35–6
,
236

delegation to Rome
37

executed by her father
37
,
236

Berners, Lord:
The Romance of the Nose
63

Bessus, satrap of Bactria
221

Bevan, E.R.:
The House of Ptolemy
10

Bibulus, Marcus Calpurnius
47
,
48

Biggeh: Osiris temple
244
n
21

Bilistiche (Ptolemy II’s mistress)
84

Bint-Anath
244
n
20

Bithynia-Pontus
144

Boccaccio, Giovanni:
On the Lives of Famous Women
41

Bocchus of Libya
177

Bogudes, King of Mauretania
56

British Museum, London
68
,
141
,
142
,
183

Brundisium (Brindisi), Treaty of (40)
159

Brutus, Marcus Junius
49
,
103
,
143
,
144

Bubasteion, Sakkara necropolis
130

Bubastis
91

temple of Bast
129

Bucheion, Armant (Iuni Montu; Hermonthis)
41–2

Buchis (Bakhu) bull of Armant
41–3
,
118

bull cults
41–3
,
89
,
118
,
129–30
,
138
,
183
,
203

bureaucracy
15
,
19
,
20
,
126

Burton, Richard
258
n
15

Busiris, King
31

C

Caesar, Augustus
see
Octavian

Caesar, Julius
7
,
145
,
154
,
168
,
188
,
189
,
209
,
236

‘first triumvirate’
34

takes over collection of Egypt’s debt
38

death of his daughter Julia
47

crosses the Rubicon
47

reaction to Pompey’s murder
51
,
237

miniature invasion of Alexandria
51–2

tries to settle dispute between Cleopatra and Ptolemy
52
,
53

bedroll story
53–5
,
57

appearance
55

sexuality
55–7

expects Cleopatra and her brother to rule together
58

attracted to Cleopatra
63–4

visits Alexander’s tomb
52
,
74

Alexandrian Wars
95–7

re-enters Alexandria in triumph
97

dallies in Alexandria
98

lack of popularity in Alexandria
155

and parentage of Caesarion
100–103

resumes campaign against followers of Pompey
103

triumphant return to Italy
103–4

Spanish campaign (46–45)
104
,
108

golden statue of Cleopatra at Venus Genetrix temple
6
,
106

acknowledged as a demigod
106

refuses Mark Antony’s offer of a royal diadem
106–7

returns to his Lavicum estate (45)
107

his will
107

assassination of (44)
4
,
104
,
107
,
121

posthumous divine honours
145

and corruption of Cleopatra’s memory
206

Alexandrian Wars
97

Caesarea

Kubr-er-Rumia (Tombeau de la Chrétienne)
202

temple of Isis
200

Caesareum, Alexandria
92
,
93

Caesarion
see
Ptolemy XV

Cairo Museum
124
,
198

calendars
xiv

Caligula, Emperor
91
,
153
,
202
,
238

Callimachos
82
,
141

Callixeinos of Rhodes
86
,
99

Calpurnia (Caesar’s third wife)
56
,
104
,
107

Calypso
189

Cambyses
91

Campus Martius, Rome: temple of Bellona
175

Canary Islands
200

Canopic Gate, Alexandria
184

Capito, Fonteius
162

Capitol, Rome
104
,
172

Capitoline Hill, Rome
115

Capitoline Museum, Rome
68

Caracalla, Emperor
75

Carcopino, J.:
Passion et politique chez les Césars
250
n
21

Carrhae (modern Harran, Turkey)
47

Carry on Cleo
(comedy film)
258
n
15

cartonnage
160
,
245
n
7

cartouches
119
,
121
,
123
,
124
,
203

Cassius
108
,
143
,
144
,
155

Castor
248
n
18

Catholic cemetery, Alexandria
5

Cato, Marcus Porcius (Cato the Younger)
35

Cecil Hotel, Alexandria
6

Ceres
60

Champollion, Jean-François
20
,
228

chaos (
isfet
)
111
,
131

Charmian (Cleopatra’s lady-in-waiting)
186
,
191

Chaucer, Geoffrey:
Legend of Good Women
213

Cherchell museum
200

Christian Church
213

Christianity
114
,
139

chronology of Ancient Egypt
239–40

Cicero, Marcus Tullius
32
,
55–6
,
105
,
107–8

Cilicia
49
,
144
,
162
,
169

Claudius, Emperor
159
,
202

Clea (priestess in the cult of Isis, Delphi)
115

Cleopatra
(film)
216
,
242
n
5

Cleomenes of Naukratis
73
,
76

‘Cleopatra had a Jazz Band’
205
,
257
n
1

Cleopatra I
32
,
45
,
62
,
137

marriage to Ptolemy V
25
,
228

of Macedonian-Persian descent
31
,
228

influence of
228

regent and guardian for Ptolemy VI
136
,
228

a goddess in her own lifetime
136

death
228
,
229

Cleopatra II
32
,
45
,
62
,
77

marriage to her brother Ptolemy VI
137
,
229
,
232

children of
231–2

supports the Jews
232

rules Egypt with Ptolemies VI and VIII
229
,
230

rules with Ptolemy VIII
137
,
229

ménage à trois with Cleopatra III and Ptolemy VIII
137–8
,
231
,
232

rules Egypt alone
232

flees to Syria on Ptolemy VIII’s return from Cyprus
231
,
232

brief rule with Cleopatra III and Ptolemy IX
233

death of
232
,
233

Cleopatra III
11
,
32
,
45
,
77
,
137
,
232

marriage to Ptolemy VIII
231
,
232

flees to Cyprus with her husband
231

ménage à trois with Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra II
137–8
,
231
,
232

brief rule with Cleopatra II and Ptolemy IX
233

coinage
62

becomes the living embodiment of Isis
138
,
139

Cleopatra IV (116–115)
11

Cleopatra V Tryphaena (Opulent One)
8
,
23
,
24
,
28
,
30
,
36
,
39
,
235
,
236

Cleopatra VI Tryphaena (Opulent One)
27
,
35
,
36
,
235
,
236

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Father-Loving Goddess), Queen of Egypt

(51–30)
235

fame of
2–3
,
9

birth (69)
27
,
28

illegitimacy issue
27–8

racial heritage
29
,
30–32

a direct descendant of Ptolemy I
29

education
32–3

personality
4
,
5
,
7
,
46
,
157
,
209

co-regency with brother Ptolemy XIII
5
,
40
,
42
,
44
,
46
,
58
,
94
,
237

marriage issue
43
,
44

only surviving image of her as a female king
44
,
45

and Hatshepsut
45

features as a sole ruler on a limestone stela
44–5
,
46

growing unpopularity in Alexandria
48

alliances with powerful Romans
4
,
48

flees to Syria and raises an army
48

coinage
49
,
54
,
60–62
,
118
,
136
,
140–41
,
164
,
196
,
205
,
246
n
18
,
250
n
21

encamped east of Pelusium
52

bedroll story
53–5
,
57

images of
54
,
58–69
,
118
,
121
,
122
,
136
,
205