Duane W. Roller

Marcellus, C. Claudius, Roman
offi cial, 85
Mariamme, Hasmonean princess,
119–20
Masada, Idumaian site, 119
Massinissa of Numidia, 48, 154,
178–79
Mastanabal of Numidia, 48
Mauretania, 48, 74, 112, 113, 127,
128, 154–56, 166, 191n34
Mausoleion, 81, 112
Maussolos of Halikarnassos, 81, 112
Medea, Greek mythological fi gure,
130
Media, Medes, 46–47, 100, 141, 153,
169
medicine and medical scholarship,
44–45, 49–51, 124–25, 143
Meleagros, Greek hero, 16
Memphis, Egyptian city, 12, 30,
32–33, 69, 103
Menelaos, Greek hero, 29
Menes, Egyptian king, 32
Meroë, Ethiopian city, 46, 105
messiah, Cleopatra as, 7, 132, 170
Metella, Roman woman, 132
Miletos, Anatolian city, 98
Mithradates VI of Pontos, 3, 21, 24,
44, 49–50, 67, 91, 195n37, 217n39;
Mithradatic Wars, 21, 44
monarchs, friendly and allied, 4, 20,
72, 83, 91–92, 136
monarchy, 30–31, 34, 72, 130, 151
Montu, Egyptian divinity, 53
Mouseion: in Alexandria, 13, 33–34,
44–45, 112–13, 123; in Stageira, 33
Mummius, L., Roman offi cial, 40
Muses, 33
Mut, Egyptian divinity, 177
Mycenaean Period, 29
Myron, Greek sculptor, 133
Mytilene, Greek city, 60
Nabataea, Nabataeans, 9, 47, 63, 86,
94–95, 104, 119, 121, 142
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Nahman, Maurice, 175–76
Naukratis, Egyptian city, 12, 29, 31,
34
Nero, Roman emperor, 50, 89, 113,
152
Nikandros of Kolophon, Greek
scholar, 43
Nikarchos, great–grandfather of
Plutarch, 7, 137, 140
Nike, Greek divinity, 182
Nikolaos of Damascus, Greek
scholar, 8, 45, 119, 127–28, 152,
169
Nikopolis, Greek city, 153
Nile, Egyptian river, 40, 46, 53, 63,
65–66, 114, 160, 178; cataracts
of, 46, 66; exploration of, 37, 66,
105; Kanobic mouth of, 30, 34, 66;
levels of, 54, 103–105, 131; scholarship
on, 44, 154
Noumenias, member of Cleopatra’s
court, 107
Numidia, African region, 23, 48,
153–54, 178–79, 191n34
obelisks, 100, 111, 151–52
Octavia, Roman matron, 3, 85–86,
90, 94–95, 97–98, 135, 147, 167;
in art, 178; children of, 89; and
marriage to Antonius, 85; as
mediator, 90, 130; as widow, 85,
152–54
Octavian, triumvir, 2, 77, 97, 116,
129, 141, 176, 183, 204n49; and
Actium, 137–40; annexation of
Egypt by, 151, 208; Antonius’s
charges against, 129, 134; and
Antonius’s will, 135–36; in art,
178; as avenger of Caesar, 74,
75, 110; becomes Augustus, 10,
152; and Caesarion, 70, 129–30,
144, 146; and death and burial
of Cleopatra and Antonius, 111,
148–49, 171–72; early life of, 45,
74, 77; and fall of Alexandria,