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Authors: Joyce Tyldesley

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Passover
77
pastoral mode
82
Paulina, Lollia
154
peasants
15
,
47
Pedibastet III
142
Pedius, Quintus
107
Pelusium
37
,
49
,
50
,
52
,
53
,
57
,
95
,
97
,
158
,
184
Penthesilea
208
Per-Ramesses (Tell ed Daba)
71
Pergamon
172
Persia
168
see also
Iran
Persians
Egyptian dislike of
219
Jews’ friendly attitude towards
77
invasion of Egypt (343)
143
Perusia (Perugia)
158
,
159
Petersen, Wolfgang
216
Petesenufe, Scribe of the Book of Isis
139
Petesouchos
248
n
18
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
68
Phamenoth
42
Pharmaces II
103
Pharos island
72
,
80
,
81
,
95
,
212
fort of Sultan Qait Bey
81
lighthouse
81
,
91
,
104
,
213
,
223
Pharsalus, Thessaly
49
Philadelphos (a goddess)
135
Philadelphos of Paphlagonia
177
Philae
126
,
139
,
205
temple of Isis
136
,
223
,
244
n
21
kiosk of Nectanebo I
244
n
21
Philip II of Macedon
220
Philip III Arrhidaeos, King of Egypt (323–316)
220
,
221
Philip (Pompey’s freedman)
50
,
51
Philista
161
Philotera
223
Phoenecia
162
Phraates IV of Parthia
257
n
4
Pinarius, Lucius
107
Piraeus
114
Pisaurum (modern Pesaro, Umbria)
175
Plancus, L. Munatius
153
,
156
,
171–2
,
254
n
20
Plato
131
,
162
Pliny the Elder
88
,
91
,
152
,
153
,
154
Plutarch
28
,
32–3
,
37
,
48
,
49
,
53
,
54
,
58
,
63
,
71–2
,
96
,
125
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
149–52
,
155
,
156
,
161–2
,
165
,
175
,
177
,
178
,
179
,
183
,
186
,
187
,
188
,
192
,
194
,
209
Life of Antony
7
,
100–101
Life of Caesar
100
Of Isis and Osiris
115–17
Parallel Lives
209–10
,
213–14
Polemon of Pontus
177
Pollux
248
n
18
Polybius
210
History
85
polygamy
26–7
Pompeia (Caesar’s second wife)
56
Pompey, Gnaeus
47
,
50
,
170
Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius)
56
,
148
,
150
,
170
,
200
,
209
accepts a golden crown from Auletes
34
‘first triumvirate’
34
Auletes stays at his villa
35
offers to support Auletes
36
and Auletes’s will
39–40
,
49
loses battle at Pharsalus
49
flees to Egypt
49–50
assassinated in Egypt
51
,
237
ashes returned to his wife
51
Caesar and Pompey’s severed head
51
,
80
Pompey, Sextus
49
,
144
,
161
,
164
,
171
‘Pompey’s Pillar’, Alexandria
90
Pontus
103
Porphyrius of Tyre
35
,
36
Pothinos
46
,
49
,
52–3
,
95
,
96
prenomen
119
priests
15
,
17
,
126
,
127
,
203
princesses (‘king’s daughters’)
26
Proculeius, Gaius
187
Propertius, Sextus
197–8
,
208
psylli
(Libyan snake-charmers)
191
Ptah (creator god)
11
,
30
,
43
,
70
,
89
,
129
,
130
Ptolemaia (four-yearly Dionysiac festival)
86–7
Ptolemais (daughter of Ptolemy I)
222
Ptolemais Hormou (el-Mansha, near Sohag)
18–19
,
134
,
222
,
242
n
Ptolemy I Soter I (Saviour), King of Egypt (304–284)
10
,
12
,
81
family background
75
,
221
Cleopatra as a direct descendant
29
Macedonian general
221
captures Bessus
221
campaigns in India
221
coronation
75
,
221
appearance
62
,
221–2
imaginative economist and competent scholar
222
establishes Alexandria Museion and its library
222
family life
222–3
encourages immigration
18
,
77
development of Alexandria
77
,
90
Ptolomaeae
86
,
87
and Serapis
88
,
89
develops link between royal family and gods
133
temple building and restoration
133
deified
133
Mendes Stela
135
Ptolemy II Philadelphos (Brother-Loving), King of Egypt (285–246)
10
,
25
,
32
,
67
,
163
co-regent alongside Ptolemy I
223
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