Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (46 page)

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

attractiveness to Caesar
63–4

in the Alexandrian Wars
96
,
101

co-regency with brother Ptolemy
XIV
5
,
97–8
,
101

her barge
99
,
100

strengthens her hold on the throne
103

in Rome
104
,
105–6

returns to Alexandria (44)
108

possible murder of her brother
4
,
110

co-regency with son Caesarion (Ptolemy XV)
5
,
102
,
142–3
,
168–9

new identity of semi-divine mother
110
,
118

and cult of Isis
103
,
110
,
139
,
149
,
174
,
198
,
205

the Dendera Cleopatra
121
,
122

develops her own powerful divinity
139

Cassius appeals to her for aid
143

summoned to Tarsus by Antony
149

feasts with Antony in Tarsus
149–54

pearl-drinking stories
152–4

poisoned flowers story
154

bargains with Antony
154–5

twins by Antony
157–8
,
162