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Cleopatra
Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh who ruled Ancient Egypt. She committed suicide after losing the Battle of Octavia. Her liaisons with popular Roman figures Julius Caesar and Mark Antony are taken to be proof of her beauty and sexual appeal.
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Why did Cleopatra hire someone to kill her brother for her?
Cleopatra would not have had to hire someone to poison Ptolemy XIV. All she would have to do was order it. She may have rewarded the one who actually gave him the poison, but as an Egyptian queen her word was law. She wanted him out of the way because he, also, like her other brother and sister, had supporters that were trying to overthrow her. To Cleopatra, it was a matter of self-preservation.
Who played mark Anthony in Cleopatra?
If you mean the Elizabeth Taylor version of Cleo, it was Richard Burton.
By present day standards, we could say that Cleopatra ran Egypt very harshly. However she was no better or worse than the other ancient rulers in her part of the world. True, she did kill off her brother and sister and as many of her enemies as possible, but that was the norm for most rulers in the East at the time. So, by ancient standards, she was an average ruler, making no extreme innovations or improvements for her people. She did add a massive amount of territory to her realm, by means of her alliance with Marc Antony, but this was soon taken away due to the defeat at Actium.
How hold would Cleopatra by if she was alive to day?
If you mean how old Cleopatra would be if she were alive today, she was born in 69 BC, add that to our present year, 2010, and she would be 2079 years of age. She probably would have a few wrinkles.
We don't really know her hair color, just as we don't know her eye color. When Hellenistic busts were found, purporting to be Cleopatra, all their surface paint had worn off. None of the ancient writers mention her hair color.
Anthony and Cleopatra were goldfish whose bowl was knocked over by a clumsy kid.
What was the order of Cleopatra's sisters and brothers?
Cleopatra had five siblings. She had two older sisters, Cleopatra VI and Bernice IV. Historians think Cleopatra VI died as a child and that Ptolemy XII, had his daughter Berenice IV beheaded. (She was in the plot to dethrone him) Next came Cleopatra VII, then her two younger brothers, both named Ptolemy, and a sister Arsinoe IV.
Where was the 1963 movie Cleopatra filmed?
The 1963 movie Cleopatra was filmed at the Cinecitta Studios in Rome.
After Anthony committed suicide how did Cleopatra take her own life?
Cleopatra didn't kill herself after Anthony killed himself she went to rome and married Julius Caeser.
What did Cleopatra hold in her hand when she died?
Nothing that we know of. None of the ancient writers mention her holding anything in her hands.
Cleopatra married two ot her brothers True or False?
True. She married Ptolomy XIII and he drowned in the Nile. She married Ptolomy XIV and poisoned him after Caesar's death.
What leadership qualities did Cleopatra have?
It seems that on her own she had little or no leadership qualities. Although she was of royal birth, she needed the backing of Rome to establish her reign.
Why did Marc Anthony commit suicide?
Marc Antony committed suicide because he had lost the war and it was the honorable thing for a Roman general to do in those circumstances. Never mind the fact that he received a report that Cleopatra was already dead, he would have killed himself regardless.
Do Cleopatra have any living relatives today in 2010?
Probably not. It would take a miracle to find some ancient record that traced her family descendants. We can only go as far back to her granddaughter and then the ancient records are lost.
Is there any Cleopatra living relatives living today?
Maybe, maybe not. It would take an intense genealogical search to find out. We know that her daughter had children, but don't know about her son's offspring. Also may of the ancient birth records have been lost and to complicate matters more, if a descendant were a girl/woman, she quite possibly would not be mentioned at all. So, maybe, maybe not, is the best answer to date.
We know that her father was Ptolemy XII, but we don't kow who her mother was for certain. Now, her father was married to an obscure lady named Cleopatra V Tryphanea, but we don't know if she was the mother of the Cleopatra we are speaking about here.
Did Antony defeat octavian at the battle of actium in 31 bce?
No, it's the other way around. Octavian whipped Antony in the battle of Actium. Or perhaps it would be better so say that Marcus Agrippa whipped Antony in the Battle of Actium, as he was Octavians general and military strategist.
Definately. There were various business taxes, import taxes, export taxes, etc. She gathered taxes just as any other ruler in her time.
Cleopatra was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals. She was a Macadonian Greek.
As they were lovers they might have had anal sex as well, as it is very old thing.
