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Carthage, history
William Nassau Weech, Brian Herbert Warmington, and R. J. A. Wilson
Carthage (Qrtḥdšt ( = ‘New Town’); Καρχήδων; Carthago), a *Phoenician colony and later a major Roman city on the coast of NE Tunisia.According to tradition (Timaeus, FGrH 566 fr. 60) Carthage was ...
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Chaeremon (2), of Alexandria (1), Greek author, 1st cent. CE
Christopher Pelling
Chaeremon of *Alexandria (1), where he held a priesthood: Greek writer on Egypt. He taught the young *Nero. His writings treated Egyptian history, religion, customs, astrology, and ...
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Cleopatra VII, 69–30 BCE
Dorothy J. Thompson
Cleopatra VII (69–30 bce), the final and best known of the Ptolemies, was daughter of *Ptolemy (1) XII (Auletes). On the latter's death in 51 she became queen, alone at first and subsequently with ...
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Iulius Philippus, Marcus
John Frederick Drinkwater
Iulius Philippus, Marcus, Roman emperor 244–9 ce. An Arabian from Shahbā (SE of *Damascus), he became praetorian prefect of *Gordian III and, early in 244, succeeded him as emperor. After ...
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Mithradates
B. C. McGing
Persian name borne most famously by six of the eight Hellenistic kings of *Pontus in Asia Minor. Later sources reported a noble ancestry for the royal line—*Cyrus(1), *Darius(1), and *Alexander(3) ...
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Ptolemy(1), name of the Macedonian kings of Egypt
Dorothy J. Thompson, Albert Brian Bosworth, Theodore John Cadoux, and Ernst Badian
The name of all the Macedonian kings of Egypt.(‘Saviour’) (c. 367–282 bce) son of Lagus and Arsinoë, served *Alexander (3) the Great of Macedon as an experienced general and childhood friend. At Susa ...
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Quinctilius Varus, Publius
Ronald Syme and Ernst Badian
Publius Quinctilius Varus, of a patrician family that had been of no importance for centuries. He owed his career to the favour of *Augustus. He was consul 13 bce with the future emperor *Tiberius; ...
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