CONTENTS.

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Introduction[xiii]
Part I.—CLEOPATRA AND CÆSAR.
CHAP.
I.AN INTRODUCTORY STUDY OF THE CHARACTER OF CLEOPATRA[3]
II.THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA[18]
III.THE BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS OF CLEOPATRA[41]
IV.THE DEATH OF POMPEY AND THE ARRIVAL OF CÆSAR IN EGYPT[65]
V.CAIUS JULIUS CÆSAR[82]
VI.CLEOPATRA AND CÆSAR IN THE BESIEGED PALACE AT ALEXANDRIA[95]
VII.THE BIRTH OF CÆSARION AND CÆSAR’S DEPARTURE FROM EGYPT[114]
VIII.CLEOPATRA AND CÆSAR IN ROME[133]
IX.THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EGYPTO-ROMAN MONARCHY[153]
X.THE DEATH OF CÆSAR AND THE RETURN OF CLEOPATRA TO EGYPT[178]
Part II.—CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY.
XI.THE CHARACTER OF ANTONY AND HIS RISE TO POWER[203]
XII.THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY[224]
XIII.CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY IN ALEXANDRIA[238]
XIV.THE ALLIANCE RENEWED BETWEEN CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY[254]
XV.THE PREPARATIONS OF CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY FOR THE OVERTHROW OF OCTAVIAN[279]
XVI.THE DECLINE OF ANTONY’S POWER[303]
XVII.THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM AND THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT[324]
XVIII.CLEOPATRA’S ATTEMPT TO BEGIN AGAIN[349]
XIX.OCTAVIAN’S INVASION OF EGYPT AND THE DEATH OF ANTONY[368]
XX.THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA AND THE TRIUMPH OF OCTAVIAN[386]
GENEALOGY OF THE PTOLEMIES[At end].

ILLUSTRATIONS.

CLEOPATRA
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.		[Frontispiece]
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PORTRAIT OF A GREEK LADY
The painting dates from a generation later than that of Cleopatra, but it is an example of the work of the Alexandrian artists.
Cairo Museum. Photograph by Brugsch.		[32]
SERAPIS: THE CHIEF GOD OF ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria Museum.		[48]
POMPEY THE GREAT
Rome. Photograph by Anderson.		[66]
JULIUS CÆSAR
British Museum.		[88]
CLEOPATRA
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.		[128]
JULIUS CÆSAR
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.		[160]
ANTONY
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.		[208]
OCTAVIAN
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.		[240]
ANTONIA, THE DAUGHTER OF ANTONY
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.		[290]
CLEOPATRA AND HER SON CÆSARION
Represented conventionally upon a wall of the Temple of Dendera.		[304]
CLEOPATRA.
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.		[352]
OCTAVIAN
Glyptothek, Munich. Photograph by Bruckmann.		[376]
THE NILE
An example of Alexandrian art.
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.		[400]
MAPS AND PLAN.
THE KNOWN WORLD IN THE TIME OF CLEOPATRA[xx]
APPROXIMATE PLAN OF ALEXANDRIA IN THE TIME OF CLEOPATRA[24]
ÆGYPTUS[66]
CLEOPATRA’S POSSESSIONS IN RELATION TO THE ROMAN WORLD[268]
A MAP ILLUSTRATING THE WAR BETWEEN CLEOPATRA AND OCTAVIAN[308]