His loyalty to pompey the Great made Aulus Gabinus a political enemy of Julius caesar. While a tribune in 67 B. C.E., Gabinus gave Pompey unlimited command of the Roman forces handling the pirates marauding the Mediterranean at the time. He served as Pompey’s representative in Egypt from 66 to 63 b. c.e. during the troubled reign of ptolemy xii neos Dionysius (Auletes) (r. 80-58, 55-51 b. c.e.) and was governor of Syria 57-54 B. C.E. Aulus Gabinus died in Illyricum (the modern Adriatic area).
Gallus, Gaius Cornelius (d. 26 b. c.e.) First Roman prefect of Egypt after the Roman occupation of the Nile Valley
He was appointed after the suicide of cleopatra vii (30 b. c.e.). An ally of Octavian, the future emperor Augustus, Gallus was renowned in Rome as a poet. He modeled his verse forms on the Alexandrian love poems popular at the time. He was also a friend of Catullus and Virgil. A manuscript in Gallus’s own hand was discovered in Primio (modern Qasr Ibrim), dating to c. 30 b. c.e. Gallus also inscribed his own name on a pyramid at giza. When he lost Augustus’s trust and friendship in 26 b. c.e. he committed suicide.
Games See board games.
Garf Hussein This was a site south of the first cataract of the Nile that was dedicated to the MEMPHIS god ptah. Located near wadi alaki, Garf Hussein had a temple dedicated to Ptah, erected by ramesses ii (r. 1290-1224 b. c.e.) of the Nineteenth Dynasty This shrine was built into a rocky cliff. A pylon led to a court area, where three porticos were highly decorated. A subterranean level of the TEMPLE contained a pillared hall and five sanctuaries in the form of crosses.
Gaugamela A battle site in 331 b. c.e., where Alexander III THE GREAT (r. 332-323 b. c.e.) defeated darius iii codoman (335-332 b. c.e.) of Persia, ending the Persian hopes of restoring the empire, Gaugamela was near Arbela in Babylonia (modern Iraq), and there the Persian armies lost to the Greek and Macedonian hosts. Darius escaped to Hyrcania, but he was slain by a subordinate.
Geb An Egyptian deity worshiped throughout the nation as the father of OSIRIS and the representation of the earth, he was the brother-husband of the goddess nut, the sky, fashioned by the creator atum, and the son of SHU and TEFNUT. Geb was also called “the Great Cackler,” a reference to the cosmic egg that contained the sun, the symbol of creation. in some temple reliefs, Geb was depicted as a man with a goose on his head.
When Atum discovered that Geb and Nut had become lovers, he commanded the god shu to separate them by raising Nut into the heavens as the sky Geb was inconsolable, and as he wept over his loss his tears formed the oceans and seas on the earth. In reliefs he was shown in a prone position, weeping for Nut, and in his physical form representing earth’s mountains and valleys. Geb was a member of the ennead of Heliopolis and the father of Osiris, ISIS, set, and nephthys, given birth by Nut on the epagomenal days of the calendar year along with Horus. He gave Lower Egypt to osiris and upper
Egypt to Set after centuries of ruling alone. Geb was worshiped in Bata, a shrine in Heliopolis. He was the keeper of the throne and the wise speaker of the gods. As the earth, he was sometimes colored green. In funerary texts, Geb could be an enemy of the deceased. Earthquakes were considered the result of Geb’s laughter.
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