I think it quite possible to reconcile Ellis with Pope, generally speaking, with the exception being the actual flesh and blood human of the Edessan/Adiabene royal family. Pope even has Phraates IV being inserted into this lineage as does Ellis. And he has Cicero worried about Cleo being pregnant with Caesarion instead of the next whelp or whelpess, who Ellis believes is Thea Muse Ourania whom hilariously would be brother and sister, consistent however with the related pharaonic system.
Pope has the 'dead' Julius appearing at the Battle of Actium as
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. The last two names work like 'Conquering (or Taming, Domesticating) Bearded Aeneas (or merely Trojan), what better fun crypto-name for Julius Caesar. (My Latin dictionary refers one from
ahen- to
aen-, the latter which only has entries for either Aeneas, Aenid, or more generically a 'Trojan'). See more after the quote.
As with his role model Alexander the Great, Caesar made a number of “post-resurrection appearances.” Caesar was especially not without a personal presence or agency in Rome. His identity of Caius Claudius Marcellus was still very much in use, and he only relinquished this name in 40 BC in order to allow Marc Antony to marry his wife Octavia Minor (Cleopatra), who was even then pregnant by Antony. P. Volumnius Eutrapelus ("Witty"), master and suitor of Cytheris, was an alias that Julius Caesar used to pique Cleopatra VII and also to loan her out to well-qualified gentlemen. Volumnius is attested in 43 BC, which is after Caesar's death, and because he was continuing to function as Cleopatra’s “handler” (among other things). The identity of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus also continued and was used by Caesar to stage-manage the Battle of Actium.
The 'Domitius' also working well with what I discovered about 'Domitianus' Nero in
The Case of the Fresh Fillet and Crispy Sprats:
In searching for Adiabene (east of the Euphrates or east of the Tigris?) I happened across a translator's note to Antiquities, Chapter XX:
(17) This duration of the reign of Claudius agrees with Dio, as Dr. Hudson here remarks; as he also remarks that Nero's name, which was at first L. Domitius Aenobarbus, after Claudius had adopted him was Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. This Soleus as [own Life, sect. 11, as also] by Dio Cassius and Taeims, as Dr. Hudson informs us.
The same name is employed at Actium as is first given to Nero, whom is later honored by the Jesuit order with their capo as being 'Papa Nero'. Charles Pope, not the Black or White Pope, shows that GDA switches sides from Antony and Cleo to Octavian's side while Antony haplessly concedes. Because it is all scripted.
Pope then goes on to claim that 'dead' Antony becomes King Herod and Phraates IV, which can accommodate Ellis' assertion that Phraates V was offered his 'office' by the Herodians in the buffer zone. Antony being Herod the Great makes sense of the Romans being identifying the Romans as Idumaeans, and also makes great sense of Fortress Antonia, currently hilariously idolized as the Temple Mount and Wailing Wall.
Ellis has Phraates V and his mother-wife killing Phraates IV (Pope's Antony). If Phraates V is really Caesarion, it all works out in Pope's system of surrogate parenting scenarios. The surrogacy is used to fool those outsiders while the literal parentage is maintained for the transnational royal insiders.
Pope will discuss the royal family matters as if they are acting on a global stage, and even asserts that Mark Antony attempts the first known romantic poetry in Latin. It is bemoaning the loss of the authors' lover, apparently Cleo, and one wonders if this was the inspiration for Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. 'Rome-o' - 'Juliet'?
Pope mentions Augustus last words asking if everybody liked his performance, and I am then reminded of Vespasian's dying joke of becoming a god.
