Duane W. Roller

Cornelia, Roman matron, 42, 95, 168
Cornelius Scipio Africanus, P.,
Roman offi cial, 95
Crassus, M. Licinius, Roman offi cial,
20–21, 25, 56, 95, 97
Crete, 38, 94, 100
Cupid, 175
Cyprus, 22, 27, 43, 64–65, 79, 155,
159, 194; Antonius’s disposition
of, 65, 79, 82; coinage from, 107,
181–82; as part of Cleopatra’s
empire, 65, 75, 95, 100, 104, 118,
160; Ptolemaic rule of, 16–17, 32,
62, 82–83
Cyrene, Cyrenaica, 11, 30–32, 35, 38,
48, 140–42, 145, 161; Cleopatra
VII’s acquisition of, 94–95, 173,
183; Cleopatra Selene’s acquisition
of, 100, 107, 136, 155; Ptolemy
VIII as king of, 41, 48
Damascus, Syrian city, 8, 11, 21, 93,
96, 107, 182
Danaos, Greek mythological fi gure,
151
Daphne, Syrian village, 86, 90
Dareios of Galatia, 91
Dead Sea, 94, 121
deifi cation, 18, 30, 117
Deiotaros of Galatia, 91
Deiotaros of Paphlagonia, 138
Dellius, Q., aide to Antonius, 8,
76–78, 96, 99, 120, 124, 131, 138,
152, 170
Demeter, Greek goddess, 114–15
Demetrios, artist, 41, 127
Demetrios, governor of Cyprus, 65
Demetrios of Phaleron, 34–35,
48–49, 149
Dendera, Egyptian site, 27, 71, 108,
113, 176
Dexiphanes, father of Sostratos,
108
Dexiphanes of Knidos, royal architect,
107–109
244 Index
Didius, Q., Roman offi cial, 142
Dido, queen of Carthage, 131, 156,
201n43, 204n50
Didymos Chalkenteros, Greek
scholar, 63, 125–26
Diodoros, Greek astronomer, 126
Diogenes, Ptolemaic offi cial, 83
Diogenes Laertios, Greek scholar,
49
Diokles, Egyptian agitator, 54
Diomedes, Greek hero, 154
Diomedes, secretary to Cleopatra,
107
Dion, Greek philosopher, 23, 44
Dionysos, Greek god, 17–18, 66, 82,
99, 109, 114–17, 170
Dioskourides (Socotra), island in
Indian Ocean, 105
Dioskourides Phakas, Greek scholar,
103, 124
Dolabella, P. Cornelius, Roman
offi cial, 75, 79, 160
Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn., Roman
offi cial, 134–35, 152
Donations of Alexandria, 48, 65,
99–100, 107, 129–30, 136, 161
Dora, Phoenician city, 182–83
Drusilla of Mauretania, 155
Dynamis of Bosporos, 81, 91–92
echeneïs, type of fi sh, 140
Edfu, Egyptian site, 27, 108, 113,
218n74
Egypt, Egyptians, 9, 12, 15, 18, 24, 34,
99, 101, 104–105; and Alexander
the Great, 15, 29–31; cults of, 15,
32–33, 53, 56, 113–14, 115–17,
151, 156; food shortages in, 21,
103; instability in, 21, 53–54,
103–104, 146; language and
literature of, 15–16, 46–49; Roman
interest in, 17, 19–27, 39–41, 56,
60–65, 72, 74, 129, 151–53
Eiras, lady-in-waiting to Cleopatra,
108, 140, 145, 147, 171