Cleopatra (49 page)

Sosibios

highly influential
226

purges the royal family
226

Ptolemy II plays a joke on him
156–7

sudden death
227

Sosius, Gaius
173

Sostratos of Knidos
81

Sotades the Obscene
25

Sothis (Sirius or Sepedet)
115

Spain
181

Caesar’s campaign in
104
,
108

sphinxes
86
,
91
,
130
,
131
,
203–4

stephane
(raised diadem)
118

Stone, Oliver
216

Strabo
12–13
,
27–8
,
36
,
39
,
82

Geography
79–80

strategoi
(generals)
19

Stratonice (Ptolemy II’s mistress)
85

Suetonius
55
,
74
,
95
,
99
,
101
,
153
,
169
,
202

The Divine Augustus
209

The Divine Julius
209

suicide
189–90
,
213

Sulla, General
11
,
234

sun disc
68

Sunnaoi Theoi (‘Temple-Sharing Gods’)
135

symposium
(male after-dinner drinking club)
83–4

Syria

Seleucid empire of
222

Eulaeus and Lenaeus provoke a new Syrian war
229

Antiochos IV’s attack on Alexandria
229

Cleopatra II flees to
231
,
232

Cleopatra VII flees to
48

Cassius occupies
143

Parthians attack (40)
158

Antony’s Parthian campaign
164

Ptolemy Philadelphos given parts of
169

T

Ta-nt Bastet
130

Taenarum (modern Cape Matapan)
180

Tanis (San el-Hagar)
71

Tarentum (Taranto)
161

Tarn, W.W.:
Cambridge Ancient History
171

Tarsus
149
,
162

Taweret
248
n
18

Tawosret (queen regent)
241
n
2

tax collectors
19
,
141

taxation
21
,
37
,
52
,
127
,
135
,
149
,
162

Tayimhotep
44
,
142

Taylor, Elizabeth
216
,
258
n
15

Tebtynis, temple to Soknebtynis
222

Tefnut (goddess of moisture)
24
,
67

Terenuthis, temple to Hathor
222

Terra Santa Catholic cemetery, Alexandria
74

Tertia (Servilia’s daughter)
56

Tertulla (Tertia), wife of Cassius
107–8

Tetisheri (queen consort)
241
n
2

Thames River
92

Thea Neotera (Younger Goddess)
139

Thea Notera Philopator kai Philopatris (the Father-Loving and Homeland-Loving Younger Goddess)
164

Thebes
42
,
43
,
78
,
126
,
193

the ever-rebellious southern capital
48
,
100
,
222

home of Amen-Re
71

home and burial place of the elite
71

civil unrest immediately after Cleopatra’s death
198–9

Theocritus
22
,
25

Idylls
82

Theodorus (Antyllus’s tutor)
199

Theodotus of Chios
32
,
46
,
50

Theoi Adelphoi
135

Theoi Neoi Phaldephoi (New Sibling-Loving Gods)
38

Theoi Philopatores Philadelphoi (the Father-loving, Brother/Sister-Loving Gods)
98

Theoi Soteres (‘Saviour Gods’)
133

Theoxena (possible daughter of Ptolemy I)
222

Thessalonica (Salonica)
49

Thinis
18

Third Syrian War (246–241)
225

Thisbe
189

Thoth (scribe of the gods)
129
,
137
,
248
n
18

Thrace
225

Thyrsus
183–4

Tiber River
104
,
105

Tiglath-Pileser
197

Timon of Phleius
82

Timoneion shrine, Lochias peninsula
182

Timotheos of Athens
88

Titius, Marcus
171–2

titularies
119

Tiy (queen consort)
241
n
2
,
247
n
26

Trastevere, Rome
104

tripartite wig
66
,
69
,
122
,
124

triple uraeus
66
,
67–8
,
247
n
27

Triumphal Gate, Rome
103

Troy
185

Troy
(film)
216

tryphe
(luxury and ostentatious display)
12
,
83
,
86
,
87
,
146

Tunisia
200

Turin Canon
241
n
2

Turullius, Publius
184

Tuthmosis II
90

twin-snake imagery
256–7
n
2

Two Lands: the unified Nile Valley and Delta 1

Tyre
154
,
158

U

Ullman, B.L.
153
,
253
n
17

uraei
66
,
67–8
,
111
,
114
,
122
,
124
,
134
,
193
,
247
n
27

Urania (Julia Urania)
202

V

Valley of the Kings
71

Valley of the Queens
71

Vatican Museum
60

Velleius Paterculus
156
,
253–4
n
20

Ventidius, Publius
160

Venus
49
,
93
,
106
,
153
,
207
,
208

Venus Genetrix, Temple of, Rome
6
,
106

Vercingetorix
104

Vergina: Macedonian royal cemetery
220

Vestal Virgins
107
,
172

Vienna Museum
62

Villa of the Quintilii, Via Appia, Rome
60

Virgil
197–8
,
256–7
n
2

The Aeneid
206–8

vulture crown/headdress
69
,
111
,
124
,
136

W

Wadi Tumilat
181

Wadjyt (‘The Green One’) (snake goddess)
67
,
69
,
193

Wars of the Successors (321–285)
222

Weech, W.N.
201

Weigall, Arthur:
The Life and Times of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt
1
,
217

women

Egyptian
17
,
103

Greek
17–18
,
21–3

denied a formal education
23

X

Xenophon
131

Z

Zenodotus
82

Zeus
12
,
25
,
89
,
132
,
133
,
248
n
18

Zeus Soter (Zeus the Saviour)
81

Zeus-Ammon
133
,
195