Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston

Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston

Author:Diana Preston [Preston, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-10-23T22:00:00+00:00


*An American academic proved in a series of experiments in the 1950s that whole pearls do not dissolve. He suggested that just perhaps the story was based on Cleopatra’s using ground pearls (effectively lime) in wine as an expensive antacid to counteract the effects of all the feasting. Others have suggested she may have swallowed the pearl whole knowing that later she or one of her attendants could retrieve it from her feces.

CHAPTER 14

“Give It to Fulvia”

ANTONY WAS NOT LONG in following Cleopatra. He paused briefly in Syria, where he appointed one of Caesar’s former generals as the province’s new governor. He also settled matters in neighboring Judaea, confirming Hyrcanus, who with his minister Antipater had aided Caesar in Egypt in 47, as ruler. Antony also confirmed Antipater’s sons, Phasael and Herod, as Hyrcanus’ viceroys in Jerusalem and Galilee with the princely rank of tetrarch, despite the fact that after Caesar’s death they had aided Cassius during the civil war, albeit, as they said, under duress. Their appointments were made in the teeth of violent opposition from the Maccabees, also known as Hasmonaeans—a powerful faction in Judaea. The name Maccabee, probably meaning “the hammer,” was the appellation of Judas, who in 168 with his brothers had launched a guerrilla war against the occupying Seleucids. In 142 the Seleucid garrison had finally been expelled from Jerusalem, leaving the Jews to be ruled by the hereditary Hasmonaean high priests, the dynasty to which Hyrcanus belonged.



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