The Murder of Cleopatra (36 page)

Battle of Mutina,
111
–
112

“beating one's breast,” 204

Bent Pyramid,
24
–
27

Berenice,
70
,
163

Berenice II,
72

Berenike (Cleopatra's older sister),
70
–
71

Berenike IV,
75
,
79

Bibleotheca Alexandrina,
50

Bitter Lakes,
59
,
164

British occupation of Egypt,
21

Brundisium,
127
,
145
–
146

Brutus,
93
,
105
–
106

Bubastis,
59
,
174
–
175

burial-chamber area in pyramid,
28

burial chambers, collective,
192

burqas,
22

Byzantine rule, ending of,
21

Caesar, Julia,
87

Caesar, Julius

affair with Cleopatra,
82
–
90

and bisexuality,
113
–
114

as “Dictator for Life,” 96

and the First Triumvirate,
56
–
57

general in civil war (Roman),
80

murder of,
96

Caesarion,
85
,
139
,
163
,
233

Caesarium (temple),
46
–
47
,
191

Cairo, Egypt, described,
19
,
23

Calpernia,
120

Canobic mouth,
185
–
186
,
218

Cape Locias,
193

Carthage,
167

catacombs,
48

catapults,
150

Centre d'Études,
192

chlarnys,
45

Christianity,
21

Cibotus (or the Ark),
46

cisterns,
48

Citadel,
22
–
23

Cleopatra I,
73

Cleopatra II,
73
–
74

Cleopatra III,
74

Cleopatra V,
75

Cleopatra VI,
71
–
72

Cleopatra VI (Cleopatra Tryphaena),
75

Cleopatra VII

affair with Caesar,
82
–
90

becomes queen,
69

behavioral history of,
15

capture and incarceration,
207
–
212

death of,
12

parentage of,
61

possible torture,
213

questions concerning death scene,
14
–
15

and suicide,
11

suspicious death scene (cold case),
14

timeline of life,
130

Cleopatra Berenike III,
74

Cleopatra's Needles,
191

Cleopatris,
164
–
165

cobra,
11
.
See also
Egyptian Cobra

cobra venom,
36

Coelius,
147

coffin (of King Tut),
25

coinage, regional,
59

Coliseum,
92

“Collapsed Pyramid,” 26

Common Era,
60

Constantinople,
21

Coptic Church,
21

Corinth,
154

Corniche,
47
–
49
,
203

Crassus, Marcus Licinius,
56
–
57

crime reconstruction,
206

crime scene,
14
–
15

criminal profiler, tasks of,
16

Crusaders,
22
–
23

cult temple(s),
192
,
197

Curio,
87

Cyprus,
59
,
74

Cyrenaica,
59

Cyrene,
182

Darius I,
59
,
176

Dashur,
24

death-by-poison theory,
40

death-by-snake theory,
16

death from cobra venom,
39

democratic system (establishment in Rome),
94

Dendera temple,
49
,
203

Dercetaeus,
195
,
221

desertions,
154

diadem,
97

Dicaearchia,
44

Dio, Cassius,
33
,
63
,
82
–
84
,
133
,
208

Diomedes,
194

Discovery Channel,
14

distortion of past events,
15

Djederfre (son of Cheops),
166

Doloaspis,
58

Donations of Alexandria,
138
–
140

dropsy,
126

“dry bite,” 39

dysentery,
154

Eastern mourning activity,
204
–
205

Egypt

established as a republic,
21

as Islamic nation,
21

Egyptian bolt,
197

Egyptian Cobra,
36
.
See also
cobra

Egyptian coins,
50

Egyptian delta,
185
–
186

Egyptian Museum,
25

Egyptian Revolution of 2011,
237

Egyptian Sea,
44

Egyptian temple,
198

Eighteenth Dynasty,
25

El Shatby, Egypt,
193

Empereur, Jean-Yves,
192

Emporium,
45
–
46

Epaphroditus,
207

Ephesus, Turkey,
143

Epirus,
146

Eros,
194

Etesian winds,
45

Eunostus, harbour of,
46

Everitt, Anthony,
127

Fayoum City,
24

First Triumvirate,
56
–
57

Florus,
211

forensic investigation of Cleopatra's death,
34
–
41

French occupation of Egypt,
21

Fulvia,
214

funerary boat,
166

funerary mask (of King Tut),
25

funerary temples,
192

Gallus, Aelius,
164

Gallus, Cornelius,
164
,
182

Ganymede,
85

Giza, great pyramids of,
21
,
23
–
24

gladiators,
95

Goddio, Franck,
48

gold trade,
59

grave robbers,
25
,
193

Great Harbor,
219

Greek-Hellenistic empire,
56

Gymnasium,
46

gypsum,
27

Hadrian (emperor),
177

hairpulling,
204

Hathor, the goddess of love,
22

Hawass, Zahi,
233

Heliopolis,
187
,
191

Hellenistic era,
192

Hellenistic tradition (grid pattern),
44

Hellenistic world,
55

Heptastadion,
46
,
221

Heracleiotic mouth,
185

Heracles,
54

Hercules,
219

Herod, King,
124
,
227

Herodotus,
187

Herooplite Gulf,
174

hierscript,
166

hijabs,
20
,
22
,
91

hippodrome,
162
,
188

Homer,
52

homosexuality and the Caesars,
112
–
113

Horus the hawk,
22

Hurghada,
164

hypaethral room,
223

hysterical grief,
206

Ides of March in 44 BCE,
96

Iliad, The
(Homer),
52

incestuous relationships,
71

India,
164

Insteius, Marcus,
147

Ionian Sea,
146
,
153

Iras,
145

Islam,
21

Islamic faith,
20

ivory trade,
59

Jews,
89

Karnak Egypt,
25

Khufu (Cheops),
24
–
28

Kleomenes,
58

Kom el-Shuqafa catacombs,
193

Koptos,
164
,
168

Lagide treasury,
78
,
136
,
155
,
163
,
188

Lagus,
70

Lake Mareotis,
44
,
46
,
217

Lake Timsah,
174

Last Pharaohs, The
(Manning),
58

Lepidus, Marcus,
57
,
105
–
106
,
120

Leucas,
154

Libya,
160

Libyan invasion (of Egypt),
21

Life of Antony
(Plutarch),
63
,
144
–
145

lighthouse of Pharos Island,
46

lime mortar,
27

Lives of the Caesars
(Suetonius),
109
–
110

Lochias,
45

Lupercalia,
96

Luxor, Egypt,
25
,
164

Lysimachos,
72

Macedonia, history of,
52
–
55

Macedonian Alabaster Tomb,
193

Maidum (village),
26

malaria,
154

Mamluks (powerful military caste),
23

Manning, J. G.,
58

Mardion the eunuch,
145

Mareotis, Lake,
44
,
46
,
217

Marsa Matrouh,
182
–
183

Martinez, Kathleen,
233

Mediterranean Sea,
23
,
143
,
163

Memphis (Egyptian capital),
44
,
58
,
186

mental fatigue,
154

mercenaries,
145

Mersa Gawasis,
164
,
170

Methone,
153

Mithraidates,
89

monarchy,
93

monsoon winds,
170

mourning,
204

Mubarak, Hosni,
21
–
22
,
47
–
48

Muhammad Ali mosque,
22

mummified skeletal remains,
192

murder of family members,
71

Muslim religion,
20

Myos Hormos,
165

Mysterious Death of Cleopatra, The
(documentary),
16
,
233

Nabataeans,
89
,
124
,
160
,
164
–
165

Nabatea,
177

Naja Haje,
36

narcissism,
53
,
96
,
204

major traits of narcissists,
117

Nasser, Gamal Abdel,
21
–
22
,
47

Navies of Rome, The
(Pitassi),
167

Necho, Pharaoh,
176
–
177

Necropolis,
46

New Triumvirate,
106
,
120

Nicopolis,
46

Nile inundation,
173
–
178
,
186

Nile River,
23

Nubia,
59

Octavia,
121
,
140
,
234

Octavian (Augustus Caesar)

as Caesar's nephew,
101

and health problems,
125

motive for murdering Cleopatra,
179
–
180

and power in Alexandria,
11

as ruler of the Roman Empire,
109

and the Second Triumvirate,
57

Octavius, Marcus,
147

Old Kingdom,
21

Olympias,
52
–
54

118 pyramids of Egypt,
24

oracle of Amun,
58

Ottoman occupation of Egypt,
21

Palestine,
59

Paneium,
46
,
200

Paraetonium,
160
,
182
–
183

Parthia,
96
,
136

Parthian campaign,
98
,
104
,
121

Patras,
153

Pelusiac mouth,
185
–
186

Pelusian arm,
177

Pelusium,
57
,
80
,
180
–
181

Pernigotti, Sergio,
198

Persia,
55

Persian conquest (of Egypt),
21

personality profiling,
114

pharaonic rule in Egypt,
21

Pharos,
221

Pharos Island,
46

Pharos tower,
45

Pharsalos,
81

Philae, island of,
196

Philip II,
52
–
53
,
56

Philippi,
126

Philo of Alexandria,
47

pirates,
164

Pitassi, Michael,
167
–
168

Plutarch

and Antony's depression,
160
–
161

and the Battle of Actium,
144
–
145

and Caesar's murder,
103
–
105

and Cleopatra's many languages,
66

description of Cleopatra,
61
–
62