Chapter 20 Since ancient times, beauties have been like famous generals
Cleopatra VII (hereinafter referred to as the queen) was one of the crowned monarchs of the Ptolemaic dynasty after Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt, and was the last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoShe is talented, intelligent and witty, and has a dramatic life.
Marriages in ancient royal families were often very chaotic. According to the law of the time, the queen had to marry her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII, and co-rule Egypt. And she would have been the daughter of her father and sister (i.e., Cleopatra V).
The queen grew up in a lavish court, and when her father died in 51 BCE, she and her half-brother Ptolemy XIII were appointed as heirs to the throne.
However, the two men were at odds with each other due to factional struggles and power struggles, and after the queen was expelled from Alexandria in 48 BCE, she gathered troops along the Egyptian-Syrian border to invade Egypt.
At this time, Caesar came to Egypt to mediate the dispute for the throne. When the queen heard this, she sailed into Alexandria at night, wrapped herself in a blanket, and was carried to the door of Caesar's room.
When Su Le, Fu Kang, Ya Lifu and Shulan arrived at the crew of "Queen of Egypt", the bearded sunglasses director was filming this classic scene. However, the director was neither bearded nor wearing sunglasses at this time.
It turned out that because most of the budget was spent on props and special effects, the director personally played Caesar, so his beard was relatively clean, and of course Caesar would not wear sunglasses.
Legend has it that Caesar was idle when he was young, until he was 34 years old when he was a treasurer in Spain, he once saw a statue of Alexander in the temple, and suddenly remembered that Alexander, at his age, had already conquered the whole world known to the Greeks at that time.
In this way, Alexander's deeds inspired Caesar's ambitions, and he went on to become a great man.
Seeing Su Le coming, the director was very happy, because the shooting went smoothly today, and it was almost dinner time, so he ended the shooting early.
In the evening, in a Chinese restaurant in Alexandria, the director hosted a banquet for Su Le and others. Due to the delay in the filming schedule, Su Le decided to take Shulan and Ya Lito around first.
Fu Kang entered the props team as he wished, and soon became proficient. In addition, this time there was a tiger again, but it helped the director a lot.
The film continued to be filmed, and the queen soon became Caesar's mistress. And Ptolemy XIII suffered defeat in the Alexandrian War against Caesar and drowned in the Nile. The queen became the de facto ruler of Egypt.
Again, in ancient Egyptian tradition, the queen married another half-brother, Ptolemy XIV, to rule Egypt together. In order to please Caesar, the queen welcomed him in every possible way, feasted on it, and accompanied him on a cruise up the Nile River to enjoy the scenery.
Soon after, Caesar went to Asia Minor for war and returned to Rome. The queen bore Caesar a son named Ptolemy Caesar or Caesar the Younger.
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Su Le led Shulan and Ya Lifu on a tour of the neighborhood, visited the pyramids and the Sphinx, and played the Sphinx puzzle with the two by the way.
The trio then set out to explore the Libyan desert in search of the Temple of Amun in the Siwa Oasis. Legend has it that Alexander the Great visited the Temple of Amun, and that Ptolemy I, the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, was one of his entourage.
Although the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt was mainly in Egypt, it was a dynasty founded by the Greeks. The capital, Alexandria (now commonly translated as Alexandria), was also one of the cities named after Alexander the Great at the time.
Ya Li felt that Su Le would definitely get good things after she went, but Su Le knew that this trip would encounter an army of scorpions in the desert, and Ya Li and Shulan would be in danger.
Su Le's ability is now greatly improved, and he can avoid the pain of the two beauties, but this also loses the benefit of helping Ya Lifu and Shulan suck venom from sensitive parts of their bodies.
This is what Su Le has been unable to decide before, and because of his hesitation, Shulan still followed. At the same time, in order for Ninghai Retreat to operate normally, it is better to let Athena stay instead of Shulan.
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After a fierce ideological struggle, Su Le decided to take pity on Xiang Xiang and cherish the jade, and directly killed the hordes of demon scorpions, and Shulan and Ya Lifu were not harmed.
Subsequently, due to the change of the sand dunes, the temple of Amun appeared in front of the trio.
After entering the temple, it was very smooth, Alexander and the eagle-headed man were not there, Bai Ling came out to greet Su Le, and without any tests, he handed over the feathers of the god Amun to Su Le.
Afterwards, Bai Ling teleported Su Le and them to the beach very intimately, and after contacting the bearded director of sunglasses, he learned that the crew of "Queen of Egypt" was currently filming in Rome, so Su Le, Ya Lifu and Shulan went to Rome by boat.
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In 45 BC, the queen was invited to Rome, where Caesar fulfilled his oath by building a temple dedicated to Venus, the ancestor of his Julius line, and erecting a golden statue of the queen next to the goddess.
Seeing that the queen was about to become the first lady of the Roman world, Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC. The Queen's dream vanished in an instant, and she left Rome in disgrace.
Upon her return to Egypt, the queen poisoned Ptolemy XIV and appointed her and Caesar's son as Plemy XV to rule Egypt together. His son was proclaimed the son of the god Amun.
After Caesar's death, Antony became dominant in Rome, and he toured the eastern provinces to raise funds in accordance with his agreement with Octavian. In 41 BC, Antony sent an envoy to Egypt and summoned the queen.
Again, the queen came aboard a gilded ship with purple sails and silver oars, which hung purple sails dyed with precious Tyre dye, and the stern tower was bezelled with gold sheets, which sparkled with the blue waves during the voyage.
The queen was dressed as the goddess of love, and lay in a tent of gauze strung with gold thread and as thin as a cicada's wings. Handsome young men stood on both sides, each holding an incense fan and shaking it gently. Yan Ying, dressed as a goddess of the sea, commands the crew holding silver oars and paddles rhythmically to the sound of drums.
When the residents saw this scene, they suspected that the god of love had come here to have fun with the god of wine. People rushed to tell each other, and the audience was like a tide. Anthony was invited to the banquet on the ship, and when he saw the queen's charming demeanor and elegant conversation, he was immediately fascinated and overwhelmed.
Antony not only threw aside the questions he asked the queen, but immediately agreed to all of her requests, even agreeing to help her kill her half-sister Assis, the heir and contender to the throne of Egypt and who had taken refuge in Ephesus.
Soon Anthony became a captive of the queen and went with her to Egypt, where they spent a winter together.
The plot continues to advance, and the scenes without the queen are all brushed off. In the summer of 40 BCE, Antony returned to Italy, and the tension between him and Octavian eased, and Antony married Octavia's sister Octavia to consolidate the political alliance in the traditional Roman way of marriage.