Cleopatra’s Kidnappers: How Caesar’s Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar

366 Pages·2006·2.18 MB·English

Table of Contents
Also by Stephen Dando-Collins
Title Page
Copyright Page
ATLAS
Acknowledgments
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Introduction
I - LAST STAND IN ALEXANDRIA
II - TRAPPED
III - ACCORDING TO BRUTUS
IV - THE DEAL
V - CLEOPATRA’S WAR
VI - MARK ANTONY, RULER OF ROME
VII - SAILING INTO HISTORY
VIII - EGYPTIAN RESISTANCE
IX - THE KIDNAP
X - CAESAR’S BABY
XI - DEFEAT AND CASTRATION
XII - REINFORCEMENTS
XIII - TAKING THE ISLAND
XIV - RELEASING THE KING
XV - THE RELIEF COLUMN
XVI - BATTLE ON THE NILE
XVII - TO THE VICTOR, THE SPOILS
XVIII - GOING AFTER PHARNACES
XIX - THE CHARIOTS OF ZELA
XX - THE ROMAN TRIUMPHS OF THE 6TH
XXI - ONE LAST BATTLE
XXII - PORCIA’S SECRET
XXIII - AFTER THE MURDER
XXIV - THE WOLF’S TWINS
XXV - THE IMPERIAL 6THS
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
GLOSSARY
INDEX
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Dando-Collins, Stephen, date.
Cleopatra’s kidnappers : how Caesar’s sixth legion gave Egypt to Rome and
Rome to Caesar / Stephen Dando-Collins.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13 978-0-471-71933-5 (cloth)
ISBN-10 0-471-71933-1 (cloth)
1. Caesar, Julius—Military leadership. 2. Rome. Legion VI Ferrata—History. 3.
Rome—History, Military—265-30 B.C. 4. Rome—History—Civil War, 49-45
B.C. 5. Alexandrine War, 48-47 B.C. 6. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, d. 30 B.C. I.
Title.
DG266.D36 2006
932’.021—dc22
2005003082
ATLAS
1. The Roman World, First Century B.C.-A.D. First Century
2. Alexandria, 48-47 B.C.
3. Rome, 46-44 B.C. (showing route of Triumphs)
The Roman World, First Century B.C. - A.D First Century