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B. Skinner’s fine
Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture
(Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005); Wyke,
The Roman Mistress
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Interview with Larissa Bonfante, February 2, 2009.
73. “Hard work” : Juvenal, Satire 6, 289ff.
74. “teasing, scolding” : Samuel Butler,
The Humour of Homer, and Other Essays
(London: A. C. Fifield, 1913), 60. Edith Hamilton remarks on the absence of deceived husbands in
The Roman Way
(New York: Norton, 1993), 35.
75. “There’s nothing a woman” : Juvenal, Satire 6, 460–1.
76. even C’s eunuchs were rich : Seneca, Epistle LXXXVII.16.
77. The much-discussed pearls: Suetonius,
“Caligula
,” XXXVII; Horace, Satire 2.iii.239; Pausanias, 8.18.6; NH, IX.lviii. C’s two pearls—“the largest in the whole of history”—are from Pliny, IX.119–121. Lucan too ropes a fortune in pearls around C’s neck and through her hair, X.139–40. See also Macrobius,
The Saturnalia,
3.17.14. In that much later account C and MA arrive at a wager over the pearl in the course of their extravagant feasting. They are well matched; “It was as the slave of this gluttony that he [MA] wished to make an Egyptian kingdom of the empire of Rome.” Plancus good-naturedly umpires the contest. For centuries C’s name remained a synonym for extravagance. In the fifth century AD Sidonius (Letter VIII.xii.8) described the most lavish of dinners as akin to “a feast of Cleopatra’s.”
78. “When I boiled a pearl” : B. L. Ullman, “Cleopatra’s Pearls,”
Classical Journal
52, no. 5 (1957): 196. See also Prudence J. Jones, “The Cleopatra Cocktail,” 1999, http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/99mtg/abstracts/jonesp.html . She finds the pearls do dissolve. Keats included the melted pearls in “Modern Love.”
79. “the leaves at the top” : Hesiod,
Works and Days,
680–1.
80. “did not let” to “name to the child”: DJ, LII.2.
81. “was her best card” : Aly, 1989, 51.
82. needed to press her case : Interview with Roger Bagnall, November 11, 2008.
83. passionate, admiring letters : Dio, LI.xii.3.
84. “A more raffish assemblage” : Cicero to Atticus, 16 (I.16.), early July 61. On broadening C’s base of support, Andrew Meadows to author, March 5, 2010.
85. On C’s concern with the reorganization of the East : Gruen, 2003, 271.

Selected Bibliography

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———.
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Bevan, E. R.
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Bianchi, Robert S., and others.
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Bingen, Jean.
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Chamoux, François.
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