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Pharos Island G R E AT HARBOR Heptastadion Causeway Lighthouse Timoneion? Kaisarion Mouseion and Library? Royal Tombs PALACE COMPLEX N 0 250 m 0 600 ft Lochias Promontory Warehouses Highway to Pelousion MAP 3. Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra. Drawn by Bill Nelson for Oxford University Press.
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Page 14: Illustrations Maps 1. Cleopatra’s
Page 18: Preface History, sir, will tell lie
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Page 30: Introduction few personalities from
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Page 60: companions, Cleopatra I, who could
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Page 88: the kingship’s linkage to the god
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collapsed in the face of the overwh
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Cleopatra I survived him by only fo
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Th e year aft er he wrote his will,
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world’s fi nest library and its a
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eputation. On the other hand, he mi
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Seleukid in the time of Cleopatra
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the great opponent of Roman expansi
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certain Diokles, who seemed to have
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Roman fi gures of the era. 10 He to
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at the time—but she would have he
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armies met at Pharsalos on 9 August
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palace and with an impassioned spee
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which fell to a vigorous attack by
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importance. But this latter point a
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Caesarion, a patronymic, probably n
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so long. 14 Her presence did not en
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was probably in the city at the tim
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Aft er Philippi, Antonius emerged a
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FIGURE 6. View of modern Tarsos. Co
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Alexandrian populace, in part becau
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the useful political connections re
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Although the exact birth date canno
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she still remains elusive and oft e
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in Tarentum managed by Octavia the
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since her ancestors had ruled Egypt
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To the south, she received the terr
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implementation was repeatedly postp
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approach of Octavia as a major thre
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of the vision of the future that Cl
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who were harassing farmers, and she
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silk, precious stones, aromatics, a
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architect; since an earlier Dexipha
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Th e most signifi cant architectura
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one might think, would ensure its s
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Rome, in Egypt the queen was still
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that had been on the Capitol but ha
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aff ected by Rome. Her primary goal
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Herod claimed that he was too young
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when open warfare broke out between
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hetorician Philostratos (for Cleopa
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of Antiochos of Askalon, are rememb
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Homeric scholar Aristarchos of Samo
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Octavian. 4 Octavia continued to at
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times of diffi culty, a Sibylline o
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acts has achieved particular fame i
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support his needs. 40 Forgery or no
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(Corfu) and coastal Epeiros, where
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following months that he was forced
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Octavian, who needed Herod as much
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his troops. Cleopatra was also thre
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provoking his known suicidal tenden
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saw her suicide as an act of suprem
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preserved but also wished to save h
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was brought to Rome and set up as a
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and brought Juba’s infant son to
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prohibited to the allied kings, and
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the Alexandrian War, which continue
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3. Cleopatra’s Mother Because the
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4. Was Cleopatra a Roman Citizen? U
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5. Some Ancient Literary Descriptio
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As much tribute as Rome received fr
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6. The Iconography of Cleopatra VII
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marble, it has the same hairstyle,
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Cleopatra is shown in profi le maki
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such—and became a paradigm of her
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Much of Cleopatra’s coinage refl
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CP: Classical Philology CQ: Classic
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5. Heckel, Who’s Who, 246-48. 6.
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54. OGIS 186; Sullivan, Near Easter
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59. Polybios 31.10, 17-20. 60. SEG
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40. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient
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.c. (see LSJ). Th e meaning is clea
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12. For an alternative view, see B
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62. Augustus F4 (= Martial 11.20);
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47. He may have received honors on
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39. Minnen, “Royal Ordinance of C
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87. Herodotos 2.59, 156. 88. IG 2.2
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12. Suda, “Habron.” 13. Strabo,
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36. Plutarch, Antonius 56.2-3. 37.
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94. Suetonius, Augustus 17.4: “pu
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8. For the issues, see Roller, Worl
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in 1955 by Olga Elia (“La tradizi
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Barnes, T. D. “Some Persons in th
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Fitzmyer, Joseph A. “Th e Languag
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Kleiner, Diana E. E., and Bridget B
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———. “Th e Genealogy of the
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Th ompson, Dorothy J. “Athenaeus
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Arrian: Anabasis, Book 3: 1.3-4, 19
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Homer (continued) Odyssey 4.220-32,
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Plutarch (continued) 208n105, 212n5
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Epigraphic Sources CIL 3.7232, 204n
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Alexandria, city in Egypt (continue
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Athens, Athenians (continued) Cleop
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Cornelia, Roman matron, 42, 95, 168
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Hera, Greek goddess, 77 Herakleides
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Marcellus, C. Claudius, Roman offi
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Pompeii, Italian city, 174-75, 178,
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Statilius Crito, T., Greek physicia
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