With his soldiers deserting him, Mark Antony took his own life and Cleopatra chose the same course, committing suicide on 12 August 30 BC. Youre Julius Caesar and have just arrived in Cairo to settle a vicious family feud for. Octavian pursued them and captured Alexandria in 30 BC. Excerpt on Cleopatra from Plutarchs Life of Julius Caesar Caesar, as a memorial of his victory, gave the Thessalians their freedom, and then went in pursuit. Octavian was victorious and Cleopatra and Mark Antony fled to Egypt. This engraving from 1894 shows Augustus Caesar and Cleopatra who is dead with a snake in her hand. The 52-year-old Caesar spent enough time with the 22-year-old Cleopatra to have a child by her named Caesarion, but unlike his luckless cousin Mark Antony. In 31 BC, Mark Antony and Cleopatra combined armies to take on Octavian's forces in a great sea battle at Actium, on the west coast of Greece. It would be Julius Caesar who helped Cleopatra regain her throne. Following the war, Cleopatra remarried to her younger. They subsequently had three children - two sons and a daughter. Cleopatra regained the upper hand by teaming with Julius Caesar, and Ptolemy drowned in the Nile River after being defeated in battle. In 41 BC, Mark Antony, at that time in dispute with Caesar's adopted son Octavian over the succession to the Roman leadership, began both a political and romantic alliance with Cleopatra. Ptolemy XIV died mysteriously at around this time, and Cleopatra made her son Caesarion co-regent. Cleopatra followed Caesar back to Rome, but after his assassination in 44 BC, she returned to Egypt. In 47 BC, Cleopatra bore Caesar a child - Caesarion - though Caesar never publicly acknowledged him as his son. Ptolemy was killed in the fighting and another brother was created Ptolemy XIII. Cleopatra, who had been exiled by her brother, was reinstalled as queen with Roman military support. Caesar followed and he and Cleopatra became lovers. He was the last sovereign member of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Pompey fled to the Egyptian capital Alexandria, where he was murdered on the orders of Ptolemy. Caesarion was the eldest son of Cleopatra and the only known biological son of Julius Caesar, after whom he was named. In 48 BC, Egypt became embroiled in the conflict in Rome between Julius Caesar and Pompey. Whether she was as beautiful as was claimed, she was a highly intelligent woman and an astute politician, who brought prosperity and peace to a country that was bankrupt and split by civil war. They were married, in keeping with Egyptian tradition. When her father Ptolemy XII died in 51 BC, Cleopatra became co-regent with her 10-year-old brother Ptolemy XIII. She is celebrated for her beauty and her love affairs with the Roman warlords Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.Ĭleopatra was born in 69 BC - 68 BC. Far from the capital, Cleopatra established her own base of operations where she raised an army and bided her time. Pompey needed Egypt and decided to back Ptolemy XIII over his sister, who went into exile.
© Cleopatra VII was the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, ruling Egypt from 51 BC - 30 BC. Two of its great military heroes, Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, were engaged in a civil war and were looking for alliances.
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