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Leigh North. Predecessors of Cleopatra
Predecessors of Cleopatra
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INTRODUCTION
Predecessors of Cleopatra
CHAPTER FIRST. THE BLACK LAND
CHAPTER SECOND. THE QUEEN
CHAPTER THIRD. MERTYTEFS
CHAPTER FOURTH. NITOCRIS
CHAPTER FIFTH. SEBEK-NEFRU-RA
CHAPTER SIXTH. AAH-HOTEP
CHAPTER SEVENTH. AAHMES-NEFERTARI
CHAPTER EIGHTH. HATSHEPSUT
CHAPTER NINTH. HATSHEPSUT (CONCLUDED)
CHAPTER TENTH. MAUT-A-MUA
CHAPTER ELEVENTH. TYI
CHAPTER TWELFTH. TYI (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. NEFERTITI
CHAPTER FOURTEENTH. TUAA
CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. NOFRITARI-MINIMUT
CHAPTER SIXTEENTH. UR-MAA-NOFRU-RA
CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH. TAUSERT
CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH. SUCCEEDING QUEENS
CHAPTER NINETEENTH. SUCCEEDING QUEENS (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER TWENTIETH. DAILY LIFE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. PERSIAN QUEENS
CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND. ROXANE
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. PTOLEMY QUEENS
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH. ARSINOE II
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. PTOLEMY QUEENS (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH. PTOLEMY QUEENS (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH. PTOLEMY QUEENS (CONTINUED)
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. CLEOPATRA VI
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE. CLEOPATRA VI (CONTINUED)
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Leigh North
Published by Good Press, 2022
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After death, at least from the Eighteenth Dynasty, divine honors were frequently paid to the queen, and especially was this the case of Queens Aah-hotep and Nefertari, the ancestresses of the race of kings who drove out and succeeded the Hyksos, the usurping rulers, and restored Egypt to its native sovereigns.
The palaces were usually of brick, as the temples were of stone adorned with gorgeously painted walls and furnished with carpets, rugs of skin and ebony and ivory chairs and couches. The queen was attended by slaves, and some favored maid or official bore beside her a fan of ostrich plumes. She wore in later periods the double crown of Egypt and presided beside the king at feasts, where men and women, with unveiled faces (veiling being an introduction of the Persians), enjoyed themselves together. They decorated each other with flowers, which already in profusion adorned the drinking vessels, listened to music and watched the dancing of female slaves, the feats of jugglers, etc. Monkeys were sometimes trained to act as torchbearers, and we can imagine the confusion occasionally engendered when one or another of them, bursting, so to speak, the bands of conventionality, reverted to his naturally mischievous impulses and cast his flaming torch into the midst of the festivities. Lions, leopards, dogs, and the specially sacred cats were all numbered among the pets.
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