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 Cleopatra
8. She was the only one of her family in a long time to actually speak Egyptian.
Arsinoe . There were only three choices for the names of the Ptolemy daughters, Cleopatra, Berenice and Arsinoe.
Julius Caesar. Antony was her second lover and Mardian and Olympus were her friends from childhood. Olympus was also her physician.
Ptolemy Caesarion. He is often known simply as Ptolemy Caesar and he was co-regent with Cleopatra from 50-47BC. Cleopatra gave her son the name Caesar even though he could not be accepted as Julius Caesar's heir in Rome.
Isis. Cleopatra believed that she was the daughter of Isis and that that made her immortal and that the bite of an asp would take her to the gods.
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Her sister place guards there to prevent her from entering. Caesar was visiting Egypt and staying in Ptolemy's palace, where there were guards guarding against Cleopatra's entry. Cleopatra knew that she would have to find a way in if she wanted to carry out her plan to seduce Caesar and get him to proclaim her as the Queen.
69 BC. She was 18-years-old when her father died and left his kingdom to her.
5. She had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI, who has been said to have died as a child, and Berenice who their father had beheaded. She had one younger sister named Arsinoe who later challenged her for the throne and ended up losing. As well, she had two younger brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, since Cleopatra was forced to have a consort she was married to the younger brother.
Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene. At the time these twins were born, Antony was married to Octavia, the sister of Cleopatra's rival, Octavian. She bore him two daughters. Antony and Cleopatra also had another son named, Ptolemy Philadelphes.
69 B.C.. Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C.
Cleopatra Philopator VII. Cleopatra's middle name was Philopator, not Tryphanea like her older sister's.
Yes. In the Ptolemaic Dynasty, it was common to name two or more children by the same first name with only the middle name to distinguish between them.
Arsinoe. Arsinoe was Cleopatra's youngest sister. By this time, both of her brothers were dead as well as her two older sisters. Arsinoe was the only sibling alive that could pose a threat to her power.
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Gaius Julius Caesar. Gaius Julius Caesar was the first to fall in love with Cleopatra, and also helped her regain her throne. When he was murdered in Pompey's Theatre, Cleopatra was residing in Rome.
Marcus Antonius . Marcus Antonius was said to be madly in love with Cleopatra. It must have been so because he ended up marrying her also according to the Egyptian custom.
Ptolemy XIII. Ptolemy XIII, who was only a teenager at that time, ordered the execution of Pompey thinking this would please Caesar, while in fact Caesar grieved over the death of his son-in-law.
Mardian. Mardian was a eunuch who learnt to read and write at the Royal Palace. Cleopatra befriended him at a young age and they stayed friends for a lifetime.
Ptolemy Philadelphos. Ptolemy Philadelphos was Cleopatra's son. Alexander Helios was a twin brother to Cleopatra Selene. History is unclear as to what happened to little Philadelphos after his parents had committed suicide.
On the battlefield. Marcus Antonius stabbed himself with his sword on the battlefield outside Alexandria while trying to fend off his former countrymen. He was brought to the tomb where Cleopatra had locked herself in, and died in her arms. Cleopatra was brought back to her palace where she stayed for several days until she tricked Octavian into letting her visit Antonius' tomb. Once there she committed suicide.
less than a year. Cleopatra had sent Caesarion down the Red Sea to try and escape Octavian, but on his way to India he was routed by Octavian's forces and killed.
Juba II of Mauritania. None of the children by Marcus Antonius were killed by Octavian. Nobody knows what happened to Alexander Helios or Ptolemy Philadelphos, for sure. It is assumed that they went to live with Juba and Selene. When Ptolemy of Mauritania, Juba and Selene's son, went to visit his distant relative Caligula, emperor of Rome, he was killed by him in case he was a threat to his throne.
puff adder. Yes, the snake bit his servant who quickly died.
Tryphaena. Tryphaena was murdered by her father's soldiers and then Berenice IV took over, but was later executed.
Marc Antony. Julius Caesar gave her and her father help, there was no Ptolemy Auletes XXI, and Geoffery Chaucer is an English author.
Auletes. He was nicknamed "Auletes" because of his flute-playing.
4. They were Cleopatra Selene II, Alexander Helios, and Ptolemy Philadelphus. The one by Caesar was Caeasarion.
She had two asps hidden in a fig basket.. She committed suicide because Marc Antony did.
Julius Caesar. They had one child, Ptolemy Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion ("little Caesar").
March, 51 B.C.. Ptolemy XII died in March of 51 B.C., making Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII joint rulers.
Ptolemy XIII. He thought Caesar would be pleased with him. He was wrong!
November, 30 B.C.. That's when she committed suicide.
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