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Historical person
c. 117–51 BCE
Ptolemy XII ruled Egypt through a period of intense dependence on Roman support. Driven from Alexandria in 58 BCE, he sought restoration through political payments and the armed intervention of Aulus Gabinius, returning in 55 BCE with Roman troops. He was the father of Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIII.
Caesar’s Soldier encounters the restored Ptolemaic court during Mark Antony’s service under Gabinius. Ptolemy’s reliance on Roman force demonstrates how the ambitions of late Republican commanders were becoming entangled with Egyptian dynastic politics.
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The Mark Antony series presents a biographical saga of the Roman commander from the Catilinarian crisis to his defeat by Octavian. Antony’s youth is shaped by the execution of his stepfather, service under Aulus Gabinius in Judaea and Egypt, and the campaigns in Gaul that bind him to…
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