Antony and Cleopatra (61 page)

Rhodion (tutor to Caesarion)

Roman army

service obligations

property qualification for service in 2nd

century BC 3

discontent

bounties

auxiliaries

loyalty

command and control

strengths

lustration ceremony

logistics

Rome

first contact with Egypt

foundation

rise of

resources

the Punic Wars

territorial expansion

invasion of Macedonia

consuls

kings

magistrates

politics

government

citizens

stability

military power

taxes

slaves

wealth

landowners

wine trade

public life

nobles

provincial governors

triumph ceremony

reputation

civil war BC

instability from 13 3 BC onwards

and Antiochus IV

Ptolemy VI flees to

naming practices

patricians

the censorship

the Social War

Marius occupies

dictators

Sulla's dictatorship

Sulla's purges

involvement in Ptolemaic succession

Egypt bequeathed to

Caesar's redistribution of publicly owned land

Ptolemy XII's visit

reverence for motherhood

education

the Campus Martius 85, in

brothels

availability of sex

elections

corruption no

priesthoods

the tribunate

the Popular Assembly

dominance of old families

falls to Caesar

attitude to Cleopatra's accession

aristocracy and the Civil War

Dolabella's debt rebellion

calendar

libraries

Temple of Venus Genetrix

Jewish community

Mark Antony's dominance

attitudes to adoption

Lucius Antonius seizes

Octavian's building projects

praetors

Octavian's visits

imperialism

Rosetta Stone

Roxanne (wife of Alexander the Great)

Rubicon, the, Caesar crosses

Rufio

Sallust, Caius Sallustius Crispus the historian

Sanios

Samosata, siege of

Sardinia

Sarmentus

Scipio, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius

Scipio Nasica in

Scodra

Scribonius Libo, Lucius

Seleucid Empire

Sempronia (mother of Decimus Brutus)

Senate, the

political freedom extinguished

members

powers

law regulating the awarding of triumphs

Sulla's purges

‘walkers' (pedarii)

involvement in Ptolemaic succession

senator's life lived in public

votes to recall Caesar from Gaul

Mark Antony's defence of Caesar

and Caesar's occupation of Rome

Mark Antony presides over

recognises Cleopatra as co-ruler of Egypt

response to the assassination of Caesar

ratifies Caesar's acts

Mark Antony's dominance

negotiations with Mark Antony

war preparations

declare Mark Antony public enemy

and the triumvirs

support for Octavian

Septimius, Lucius (tribune of the Gabinians)

Serapion (Cleopatra's governor of Cyprus)

Serapis

Servilla (mother of Brutus)

Seth

Seven Wonders of the World

Shakespeare, William

Sicily

Sidon

Siwah, temple of Ammon

sobriety

Social War, the

Sosigenes

Sosius, Caius

Spain

Sparta

Spartacus

Strabo

Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius, the biographer

Sulla, Lucius Cornelius

Sulpicius Rufus, Sergius

Sybilline Oracle

Syracuse

Syria

Tacitus

Tarentum

Tarsus

Taylor, Elizabeth

Thapsus, battle of

Theodotus of Sanios

Thrystus

Tiridates of Armenia

Torone (the ladle')

Transalpine Gaul

Trebellius, Lucius

Trebonius, Caius

Triumvirate, the

formation of the

power

proscriptions

pardons

revenue

women oppose

military forces

Philippi campaign

distribution of land to troops

Lepidus marginalized

lapses

Turullius, Decimus

Tyre

Universal History
(Polybius)

Upper Egypt

Uxelodunum, siege of

Vatia Isauricus, Publius Servilius

Velleius Paterculus, Caius, the historian

Ventidius Bassus, Publius

Vercingetorix

Vestal Virgins

Via Egnatia, the

Virgil

warships

wine trade

Xanthus

Zama, Battle of

Zeugma