Alexandria: the last nights of Cleopatra

Map

31.12.10

Arrival in Alexandria

A yellow room at Le Metropole

Maurice and the Red Tents

How Cleopatra made it happen

1.1.11

Cleopatra the First

Mahmoud and Socratis

New Year bombing

The Dead Fountain cafe

Essex clay

I look myself up

2.1.11

Slightly poisoned

Muslims and Copts

Monty's bar

Jesus, the missing years

3.1.11

Cleopatra the Second

The rough-book

E.M. Forster and the Ptolemies

Boxes of tragedies

Death by needles and beaks

4.1.11

Partial eclipse

Sir Anthony Browne's foundation

Mr G and Mr W

She Who Must Be Obeyed

Blood from his nose

An arms salesman

5.1.11

V, the schoolgirl

Teenage years

Sodomy in Greek

Burning books

A boy called Frog

Paul Simon and Jimi Hendricks (sic)

6.1.11

Cleopatra the Third

Miss Taylor

Signs of a beard

Pompey's Pillar

A bomber and a carpet

7.1.11

Cleopatra the Fourth

In Oxford

A kiss from V

Julius Caesar's little war

A cruise down the Nile

8.1.11

Maurice gets Marowitzed

Lighthouse island

Mahmoud and the church bomb

Ides of March

9.1.11

A lesson from Holladay

Continuators

Watch the office men

Classicists do

A night at The Frogs

10.1.11

Cleopatra the Fifth

An actress at St Mark's

Sex with Crissie

Maurice's Nubian night

Socratis on Caesar

Aulus Hirtius, V and me

11.1.11

The Metropole red-and-green Ball

Tied down in the tents

Frog and the Mermaids

12.1.11

Secret seventies

The Latin for hangover

Alexandrian rules

Southern Bug

Somewhere on Love's Island

Alphabets in the sky

13.1.11

The middle of the story

Mark Antony waits at Tarsus

Perfumed sails

Successors to Caesar

A queen cannot choose her pimp

14.1.11

Cleopatra the Sixth

Grey days at Big Oil

Bureaucracy student

A different Antony Brown

15.1.11

Cleopatra the Seventh

Space barons

V in the Red Tents

Calthorpe Arms

The Thatcher who must be obeyed

F for Farouk

Duke's rout

16.1.11

The purpose of parties

Mark Antony s wars

Generous happenings for a general

The new Caesars

17.1.11

Queens by night and day

Dreams of dogs

Romans and Alexandrians in the newsroom

Leading articles

The Scargill gaffe

18.1.11

Last nights of an editor

Farewell to Calthorpe and other Arms

Lost notes

What happened at Actium

19.1.11

Mahmoud and the troops

Death of Antony

Socratis's mother sings

Coincident cancers

20.1.11

Maurice and Cleopatra reunited

How to die without pain

E.M Forster on the North Sea

21.1.11

V comes to Cheltenham

How to read a Latin poem

The afterlife of Romans

Drink and move on

22.1.11

Last night, last words

Farewell to Le Metropole

Noises from the border

the right choice of driver

Epilogue: Elizabeth Taylor and the Arab Spring

Acknowledgements