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Legendary Life: Cleopatra

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Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra is generally referred to as Cleopatra VII

Cleopatula VII of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt

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Cleopatra VII, commonly known as Cleopatra. She was the last female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt. She died as a venomous snake biting herself, and her death marked the end of the Ptolemaic kingdom, the end of the Hellenistic period, and the beginning of the Roman era in the Eastern Mediterranean. She is talented, intelligent, witty, good at means, unpredictable, and has a dramatic life. In particular, she was involved in the political maelstrom at the end of the Roman Republic, and her close relationship with Caesar and Antony, accompanied by various anecdotes, made her a famous figure in literature and art.

Place of birth

Memphis, Ancient Egypt

ethnic group

Ancient Egyptians

Major achievements:

Keeping the country safe from Roman annexation

Name

Cleopatra VII

Nickname

Cleopatra

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Biography of the character

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Statue of Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and was a descendant of the Kingdom of Macedonia, which ruled Egypt at the time. When Alexander the Great established an empire with an unprecedented territory, he gave Egypt to one of his generals, Ptolemy Sotel, who immediately established the Ptolemy Sotel dynasty in Egyptian history. Cleopatra was the second daughter of King Cleides Ptolemy Auret.

Cleopatra was one of the crowned monarchs of the Ptolemaic dynasty after Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt. Her father, Ptolemy XII, Aulet, appointed his eldest son, Ptolemy XIII, to rule with her to rule Egypt. In 51 BCE, Cleopat** ascended to the throne. Cleopatra was undoubtedly a focal point in ancient Egypt, and in later accounts, this Egyptian beauty not only temporarily preserved a dynasty by virtue of her overwhelming appearance, but also caused the kings of the mighty Roman Empire to bow down under her pomegranate skirt and willingly serve it. Dante, Shakespeare and others described the legendary woman as "a sensual enchantress of the world"; George Bernard Shaw also called her "a willful and unobtrusive woman". Cleopatra VII, the daughter of the Egyptian kings Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra V, was born in 69 BC and grew up in a lavish court. When her father died in 51 BCE, she left a will appointing Cleopatra VII and her half-brother Ptolemy XIII as their heirs. But the two of them are at odds with factional struggles and power struggles. After being expelled from Alexandria in 48 BCE, Cleopatra VII gathered an army along the Egyptian-Syrian border in preparation for an invasion of Egypt. By her father's arrangement, Cleopatra was customarily married to her half-brother, and the two of them ruled together. The ambitious Cleopatra wanted to gain further power, but the two ministers, Posinius and Octvian, joined forces against her and drove her to Syria, where she raised an army to fight for the throne of Egypt by force.

Fascinate Caesar

Cleopatra VII

At this time, Gaius Julius Caesar pursued Pompey to Egypt, and Bertinus Bertinus, a subordinate of Cledeus Ptolemy XIII, killed Pompey and sacrificed his head to Gaius Julius Caesar in order to please him, hoping to use Caesar to get rid of his sister Cleopatra. But this move did not win him Caesar's favor. Cleopatra also wanted to take advantage of Caesar to help her take the throne, so she ordered her subordinates to disguise themselves as merchants and wrap themselves in a large blanket, and when the merchant came to Caesar's house to ask Caesar, she came out of the blanket and met Caesar. Cleopatra was in her prime at that time, and she used her beauty and intelligence to charm Caesar, who ordered Cleopatra's father's will to be executed, and Cleopatra and Cledemus Ptolemy XIII ruled together.

Cleopatra VII's crown

Bosinus then rebelled, was killed after the rebellion failed, and Cledemus Ptolemy XIII was killed while on the run. Caesar conquered Egypt but did not include it in Roman territory. From then on, Cleopatra lived with Caesar and had a son named Filopato Firomotto Caesar, which means "Gaius Julius Caesar the Younger". At the same time, Caesar restored Cleopatra to the throne. In 45 B.C., Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIV were invited together to Rome and were honored to stay in Caesar's private residence on the other side of the Tree. Caesar fulfilled his oath by building a temple in Rome dedicated to Venus, the ancestor of his Julius line, and erecting a golden statue of Cleopatra VII next to the goddess. Seeing that she was about to become the first lady of the Roman world, Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC. Cleopatra VII's dream vanished and he left Rome in disgrace.

When Cleopatra VII returned to Egypt, she poisoned Ptolemy XIV and appointed her and Caesar's son as Ptolemy XV to rule Egypt together. His son was proclaimed the son of the god Amun. At this time in Rome, Octavian, the adopted son of Gaius Julius Caesar, and his subordinate Mark Antony quelled the turmoil in Rome, and the two divided their spheres of influence. Octavian ruled the west, while Antony ruled the east. Antony summoned Cleopatra to Tarsus during the attack on Anthony, hoping to obtain the riches of Egypt in order to solve the problem of feeding the army.

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