event
Alexandrian War (48–47 BC)
the Alexandrian war
also: bellum Alexandrinum
Caesar's eight-month campaign at Alexandria in pursuit of Pompey's killers (autumn 48 to spring 47 BC), with the dynastic intervention on behalf of Cleopatra against her brother Ptolemy XIII. Recorded in the Caesarian Bellum Alexandrinum.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 13.16 §2 the Alexandrian war
Caesar's campaign at Alexandria (autumn 48 to spring 47 BC), in which he was besieged in the city and intervened in the dynastic quarrel on behalf of Cleopatra against her brother Ptolemy XIII.
- Ad Familiares 13.16 §2 the Alexandrian war
Caesar's eight-month campaign at Alexandria in pursuit of Pompey's killers (autumn 48 to spring 47 BC), with the dynastic intervention on behalf of Cleopatra against her brother Ptolemy XIII.
- Ad Familiares 15.15 §2 the Alexandrian war was to be tacked on at such length
After Pharsalus, Caesar was pinned down at Alexandria for some eight months (48-47 BC) in the dynastic war over Cleopatra, delaying the settlement of the wider civil war.