Ammonios (courtier Cleopatra)
Ammonios was a in the 1st century BC. Living courtier of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra .
Ammonios is only mentioned in a letter from the Roman orator Cicero to Atticus of June 13, 44 BC. Mentioned. In this letter, Cicero refers to Cleopatra's stay in Rome , where she lived from 46 to 44 BC. In one of the houses of Caesar on the other side of the Tiber , and expressed displeasure about the queen and some of her courtiers. The speaker, who didn't like Cleopatra, was angry that she had promised him gifts of a literary nature and that Ammonius had vouched for her promise to be kept; nevertheless Cleopatra had apparently not delivered these presents.
Apart from this note from Cicero, nothing is known about Ammonius. He could with the chargé d'affaires of Cleopatra's father Ptolemaios XII. , the 56 BC BC was active for his king in Rome, which the ancient historian Ulrich Wilcken , however, considers unlikely.
literature
- Michael Grant : Cleopatra. Biography. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ISBN 3-404-61416-X , p. 138f.
- Christoph Schäfer : Cleopatra . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-15418-5 , p. 98.
- Ulrich Wilcken : Ammonios 9. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 1862.
Remarks
- ↑ Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 15, 15, 2; on this Christoph Schäfer, Cleopatra , p. 98 and Michael Grant, Cleopatra , p. 139 with note 9.
- ^ Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares 1, 1, 1.
- ^ Ulrich Wilcken: Ammonios 9. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 1862.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ammonios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cleopatra's courtier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |