Chapter I: Preface

I have to thank most heartily the Honourable Mrs Julian Byng, Mrs Gerald Lascelles, Mr Ronald Storrs, and my wife, for reading the proofs of this volume, and for giving me the benefit of their invaluable advice.

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