Chapter II: 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 _Frontispiece_
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.
_To face p._
PORTRAIT OF A GREEK LADY 32
_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.

SERAPIS: THE CHIEF GOD OF ALEXANDRIA 48
Alexandria Museum.

POMPEY THE GREAT 66
Rome. Photograph by Anderson.

JULIUS CÆSAR 88
British Museum.

CLEOPATRA 128
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.

JULIUS CÆSAR 160
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.

ANTONY 208
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.

OCTAVIAN 240
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.

ANTONIA, THE DAUGHTER OF ANTONY 290
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.

CLEOPATRA AND HER SON CÆSARION 304
_Represented conventionally upon a wall of the Temple of
Dendera._

CLEOPATRA. 352
British Museum. Photograph by Macbeth.

OCTAVIAN 376
Glyptothek, Munich. Photograph by Bruckmann.

THE NILE 400
_An example of Alexandrian art._
Vatican. Photograph by Anderson.

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