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10. Juba (FGrHist #275) F87 (= Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 6.229c);
Th ompson, “Athenaeus in His Egyptian Context,” 83–84.
11. Sidonius, Letter 8.12.8 (“dapes Cleopatricas”).
12. Lucan 10.107–71; Tucker, “Banquets of Dido and Cleopatra,” 17–20;
Weber, “Dionysus in Aeneas,” 338–39.
13. Vergil, Aeneid 1.697–756.
14. Josephus, Against Apion 2.56–60.
15. Macrobius, Satires 3.17.14; Velleius 2.84; Horace, Epode 9.10–12; Vergil,
Aeneid 8.685–88; Appian, Civil War 4.38, 5.1; Josephus, Jewish War 1.243; Pliny,
Natural History 33.50; Dio 49.34.1; Florus 2.21.11.
16. Suetonius, Augustus 69.
17. Augustus, F4 (= Martial 11.20); Hallett, “Perusinae glandes and the
Changing Image of Augustus,” 151–71.
18. Plutarch, Antonius 59.3–4; Seneca, Suasoria 1.6–7; Russell, Plutarch, 135.
19. Sibylline Oracles 3.350–80; Tarn, “Alexander Helios and the Golden Age,”
139–43; infra, pp. 170–71.
20. Plutarch, Alexander 27.6, and On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander 8.
21. Tarn, Alexander the Great, 2:414–15.
22. Pliny, Natural History 9.119–21; Macrobius, Satires 3.17.14. On Plancus,
see Watkins, L. Munatius Plancus, 100–109.
23. Ullman, “Cleopatra’s Pearls,” 195–96.
24. Clodius was the son of Aisopos, the most famous tragic actor of the
mid-fi rst century b.c., mentioned several times by Cicero (for references, see
Bloedhorn, “Aesopus, Clodius,” 261–62).
25. Horace, Satires 2.3.239–41; Pliny, Natural History 9.122; Flory, “Pearls for
Venus,” 498–504.
26. Velleius 2.83.2.
27. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 15.90.
28. Plutarch, Antonius 58.5.
29. Pliny, Natural History 34.58; Strabo, Geography 13.1.30, 14.1.14.
30. See the following works by Minnen: “Offi cial Act of Cleopatra,” 29–34,
“Further Th oughts on the Cleopatra Papyrus,” 74–80, and “Royal Ordinance
of Cleopatra,” 35–42. Th e document is pictured in Walker and Higgs, Cleopatra
of Egypt, #188.
31. Turner, Greek Papyri, 138.
32. Under the rotation system then in use, Domitius was senior consul in
January and Sosius in February (Gray, “Crisis in Rome at the Beginning of 32
b.c.,” 17).
33. Dio 50.2–3.
34. For the period leading up to the Battle of Actium, the primary sources
are Plutarch, Antonius 56–68; Dio 50.2–51.5; see also Livy, Summary 132.
35. Velleius 2.84.2.
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