Cleopatra the Great (66 page)

Petearsemtheus 167

Petorisris 325

Petosiris family 135

Petra, Arabians of 298-9

Petreius 170, 172

Petubastis I 60

Petubastis II 65, 66, 68

Petubastis III 254, 274, 280, 297, 307, 324, 334

Peukestas 31

Phakas, Dioscurides 220

Pharnaces II 164, 172

Pharos 31-2, 41, 46, 78, 101, 119, 154, 172, 249

Pharsalus, batde of 96-7, 120, 165, 207, 283

Philae 15, 56, 58, 80, 125, 151-2, 246, 279, 325, 326, 340

Philaenis of Samos 252

Philip II 21, 22-5, 26, 40, 99, 223, 228, 246

Philippi 229, 230, 235, 283

Philippics
(Demosthenes) 24

Philippics , the (Cicero speeches) 223-4

Philippus 204

Philo 216

Philostratus 81, 194

Philotas 279

Philoxenus 81

Phoenicia 27-8, 231, 245, 267, 271, 276, 307

Photinus 81

Phraates 270, 272

Phrygia 20

Phryne 105

Physkon (Ptolemy VIII) 58, 59, 60-2, 81, 180, 256, 264

Pindar 16, 21, 39

Piso, Lucius Calpurnius ill, 183, 211

Plancus, Lucius Munatius 243-4, 250, 273, 279, 282, 285, 296, 300, 330

Plato 16, 22, 29, 39, 157

poison, taken by Cleopatra 301, 315-19

Polydamna 249

Polemon of Pontus 262, 332

polygamy 20-1, 121, 264, 277

Pompeia 108, ill

Pompeii 180, 185, 190, 198

Pompeius (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) 74-5, 77, 78, 79, 85, 94-100, 106-12, 117-18, 121, 182

Pompeius, Sextus 224, 227, 255, 260-1, 271, 273, 277

Pontifex Maximus, Caesar as 170, 171, 185

Poseidon 26, 32, 255

Postumia ill

Postumus, Rabirius, Gaius 76

Potheinos (Cleopatra's prime minister) 73, 97, 98, 99, 100, 113, 118, 280

Potheinus 92, 96, 172

Praxiteles 105

Proculeius, Gaius 310

Propertius 315, 327

protection ceremonies 149

Proteus 32

Psammetichus (Psamtek) I 15

Psammetichus II 144, 329

Psammon 31

Psamtek I (Psammetichus) 15

Psenamun of Letopolis 324

Psyllian snake-charmers 320-1

Ptah, Egyptian god of 16, 29, 49, 65, 93, 12930

Ptolemaios
see
Caesarion

Ptolemais 19

Ptolemais Hermiou 137

Ptolemaia festival 274-7

Ptolemy I 23, 34, 37, 38-40, 41-2, 43, 81, 264, 334

Ptolemy II 42, 44, 45-50, 82, 128, 216, 257, 270

Ptolemy III 50, 52, 263, 264, 266

Ptolemy IV (Philopator) 52-4, 67, 81, 125, 126, 145, 299

Ptolemy V (Epiphanes) 54-7

Ptolemy VI 57, 58, 59, 180, 263

Ptolemy VIII (Physkon) 58, 59, 81, 180, 256, 264

Ptolemy IX (Chickpea) 61, 62, 63-5, 66-7, 125, 133, 142, 151, 296

Ptolemy X 61

Ptolemy XI 67, 74, 180

Ptolemy XII
see
Auletes (Ptolemy XII)

Ptolemy XIII 91, 92-3, 95-6, 98, 100, 113-14, 114, 115, 118, 120, 143, 172, 241

Ptolemy XIV 121,141,153, 179,181,195, 21415, 226

Ptolemy Apion 59, 62, 65, 75

Ptolemy Eupator 59

Ptolemy Keraunos 42, 43

Ptolemy of Cyprus 300

Ptolemy (son of Juba II) 337-8

Ptolemy Philadelphos (fourth child of Cleopatra) 270, 275, 276, 279, 306-7, 333

Puteoli 180, 204, 339

Pythagoras 16

Pytheas 108

Pythodoris 332

 

Quintili brothers 198

Ra (sun god) 28, 30, 89, 128-9, 321, 329

Rabirius, Gaius 80

Ramses II 84, 144

Ramses III 14

Raphia 53, 55, 56

Rattawy 142, 146, 162

Ravenna 94

Red Sea 96, 116

Cleopatra's canal linking to the Nile 15, 18, 45, 201, 298

trade route 49, 83, 141, 192, 280, 304, 306

Repyt (lionness goddess) 136, 137

Rhakotis 41, 127

Rhodes 14, 40, 76, 78, 107, 227, 244, 299

Rhodon 279, 306, 312

Rome, Cleopatra in 179-206

Romulus 200, 208, 330

Rosetta 56

Roxane 38, 40

Rubicon, River 94

Rufilla 278

Rufio 153

 

sacred bull 3, 16, 30, 89, 90, 93, 133, 141, 146, 169, 332

see also
Apis bull; Buchis bull; Mnevis bull

Sais 16, 17, 19, 56, 162

Sakkara

Apis rites 90, 131, 253, 257

funerary inscriptions 220, 331

pyramids of 29-30, 129

Serapeum 30, 39, 93, 131, 161

Samos, island of 245, 283, 297

Samothrace 21, 42, 45

Sandys, George 7

Sara (Serapion?) 195

Sardinia 225, 230, 255, 256

Scemiophris 82

Sceptres, War of the 64

Scipio, Metellus 169-70

Scnboma 255, 256, 261, 306

Scythia 20

Sebennytos 19

Secret Forms of the God, The
148

Sekhmet (lioness goddess) 220, 247, 265

Seleucus (garrison commander) 307

Seleucus (minister) 179, 280, 314

Seleucus I 38, 42, 56

Seleucus Kybiosaktes 79

Selket (scorpion goddess) 320, 321

Sema, the 54

Serapeum

Alexandria 47, 51, 254, 274, 279, 280, 306

Canopus 243

Sakkara 30, 39, 93, 131, 161

Serapion (governor of Cyprus) 214, 227, 228, 241

Serapis 29, 37, 41, 116, 134, 138, 243, 258, 288

see also
Osiris

Servilia 97, 111, 182, 207

Sesostris, name of 5

Seth 148, 157, 158, 219, 257

Seti I (Menmaatra) 137-8, 329

Seti II 84

sexual imagery, blatancy of in Egyptian culture 251-3

Shakespeare, William 7

Shesmetet (lion goddess) 147

Shu 257

Sicily 165, 224, 225, 230, 255, 271

Siculus, Diodorus 215

Siwa 33, 296

skin treatments, Roman 187

slaves, trade in 110

snakebite suicide, legend of 2, 3, 315-17, 320-1

Snofru, King 91

Sobek (the crocodile god) 49, 59, 132-4

Sobeknefer 83

Sobekneferu 82, 134

Socrates 21

Solarium Augusti 329

Solon 16

Soma, the 54, 65, 73, 120-1, 145, 163-4, 164, 301-2, 311

Sophocles 81

Soranus of Ephesus 156-7, 158, 160, 196

Sosigenes 81, 115, 202

Sosius, Gaius 281, 283, 290, 311

Sphinx, the 129

Spurinna 208, 209

state vessels

ship used in Cleopatra's journey to Rome 179-80

ship used in Cleopatra's Progress down the Nile 125-7

stellar beliefs, Egyptian 222

see also
astrology

Step Pyramid, Sakkara 16

Sulla, Cornelius 66-7, 74, 107, 180, 185

Sulpicius, Servius 111

Swenet (Syene) 150

Sybilme Oracle/books 204, 209, 241, 258, 285, 330

Synapothanoumenoi, the (the Suicide Club) 300, 308

Syria

in time of Caesar 164, 204, 206

in time of early Ptolemies 12, 14, 45, 52, 53, 57-8, 59, 62, 63, 64, 75, 77, 79,

in years following death of Caesar 223, 224, 225, 227, 228, 230, 242, 254, 260, 262, 264, 267, 271, 276, 297, 305, 314, 326, 339-40

 

Taimhotep, of Letopolis 82, 131, 179, 220, 254, 256, 324

Tao II 138

Taphosiris 242

Taposiris 243

Tarentum 164, 245, 261

Tarsus 3, 235, 238, 241, 253, 339

Taues and Taous 257

Taweret 158, 325

Tawosret 84

tax breaks, offered by Cleopatra 280-1

Tazza Farnese bowl 221

Tefnut 257

Terentilla 278

Terenuthis 127-8

Tertulla 111

Tertullia 278

Tertullina, Volusia 336

Tetisheri, Queen 138

Thapsus 169, 170, 172

Theatre of Dionysos 118

Thebes

in time of Cleopatra 88, 90, 96, 137, 141, 142-5, 142, 145, 218, 220, 306, 312, 334

in time of early Ptolemies 13, 14, 15, 34, 55, 56, 57, 58, 62, 65, 66

Theodoras 279, 311

Theodotus of Chios 80, 92, 97, 98-9

Theon 137, 179

Thera 49

Thon 249

Thonis 325

Thoth 47, 82, 129, 135-6, 166, 219, 244

Thrace 20, 38, 42, 259, 262

Thyrsos 300

Tiber 2, 182, 184, 194, 195, 200

Tiberius (son of Livia) 331, 332, 337

Timon of Athens 299

Timoneum, the 299

Titisiena, Salvia 278

Titius, Marcus 273, 282, 300

toilet facilities, Roman 190

tomb, Cleopatra's 164

Toryne 288

Tower of Babel 37

treasury, Dendera 167-8

Trebonius 227

Triumph of Horus, The (sacred drama) 148

Triumphs 74, 182, 260, 274, 340

of Caesar 125, 170-3, 197, 204, 212

of Octavian 273, 300, 313, 314, 321, 327-8, 333

Tryphaena
see
Cleopatra Tryphaena; Cleopatra Tryphaena V

Tumulus Iuliae 213

Tutankhamen 83, 138

Tuthmosis I 334

Tuthmosis III 334

twins, born to Cleopatra 256-8

Tyre 27, 184, 254, 255

 

unguents 166, 167-8

Usermaatre 144

 

Valley of the Kings 6, 14, 30, 83-4, 144

Vatican Head, the 198, 199

veiling and unveiling of Cleopatra before Caesar 101-4

Venus

Roman goddess of 3, 96, 97, 148, 155, 183, 190, 192, 197-8, 259, 288, 328

temple of 201, 216, 222, 274, 305, 338, 340

see also
Aphrodite; Hathor

Venus Genetrix 197, 212, 222

Venus Victrix 199

Vercingetorix the Gaul 172

Vestal Virgins 213, 263, 273, 277, 286

Virgil 261, 307, 315

voice, Cleopatra's 105-6

Volkmann, Hans 2

Volumnia 165

 

water supply, Rome 186

Wennefer (chief priest) 91

Weret-Hekau 316

will and testament, last

Antonius' 286

Caesar's 203-4, 211

wine making and consumption 245-9

women, in ancient cultures 17, 23, 116-17, 194, 246

 

Xenophon, Gaius Stertimius 332

 

Zayd'il bin Zayd 45

Zela 164

Zenobia of Palmyra 339-40

Zeugma 268

Zeus 19, 20, 22, 31, 33, 41, 44, 90, 155, 209

see also
Hera; Jupiter

Zodiac, the 81, 92, 166, 168, 258, 329

Zopyros 82, 117

DR. JOANN FLETCHER
is an honorary research fellow at the University of York, where she teaches Egyptian funerary archaeology and mummification. As part of the university's Mummy Research Group, she has examined human remains from around the world, including Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Yemen, Italy, and Ireland. She is also consultant Egyptologist for Harrogate Museums and Arts. Fletcher makes regular television appearances, most recently as the lead investigator in the History Channel series
Mummy Forensics
. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including
The Search for Nefertiti; Alexander the Great: Son of the Gods; Egypt's Sun King: Amenhotep III
; and
Oils and Perfumes of Ancient Egypt
. She has also contributed to several guidebooks and to the BBC's History website, and she lectures widely. She lives in York, England.

Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors.

THE SEARCH FOR NEFERTITI

Jacket painting montage courtesy Bridgeman Art Library

Jacket design by
the
BookDesigners

CLEOPATRA THE GREAT
. Copyright © 2008 by Joann Fletcher. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN: 978-0-06-058558-7

11 12 13 14
OFF/RRD
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062106056