Cleopatra

The reign of the Ptolemaic Dynasty ended in

30 BC, when Cleopatra committed suicide after Octavian captured her as his prisoner.

Cleopatra formed her alliances with the two most powerful Roman rulers that she met because it was the only way for her to try to attain her main objectives. She had two main goals which were to keep her country independent and to preserve her dynasty. She knew very well that she could never fight Rome as Egypt had no army to speak of. (The Ptolemies had become lax militarily and if needed preferred to hire mercenaries rather than fielding an Egyptian army.) She also couldn't help but notice that Egypt was surrounded by Roman territories and because of Egypt's vast wealth, it would be tempting for a senatorial takeover. To her way of thinking it was much better to enter into alliances of friendships. Her second concern was to preserve her dynasty. Since she had seen to it that all her family had been killed off (a Ptolemy family tradition) she had to have children to carry on. That's why she was so adamant that her illegitimate son, Ptolemy XV, (Caesarion) was fathered by Caesar who was considered a god in the east. Caesarion would marry his sister Cleopatra Selene and thus preserve the dynasty. Marriages between siblings were a common Ptolemy practice.

King Tut's main accomplishment was saving Egypt from the chaos his father had put it into. Akhenaten had tried to change the religion in Egypt from Amun to Aten. In making this change, he destroyed the temples of other gods. Worship of Amun was forbidden. When Tutankhamen took over he changed the religion back to Amun and rebuilt some of the temples. This helped Egypt regain stability and return things to normal.

He was a great king at a young age.

Cleopatra, like all absolute rulers of her time, ruled autocratically and harshly, by our present day standards. Although Egypt had a system of provinces called nomes, with their overseers, they were all responsible to Cleopatra.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

Yes, by about a thousand years.

No way, or Tut Tut. She was romantically involved with Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, two He-men, and probably some Egypto-Greek consorts. I believe she hqd children, shown in a palace pool in one or both of the Cleopatra films- one wonders what happened to them after the Snake bite?

One version of the crucial Battle of Actium has indicated that at best there was a miscommunication between the forces of Antony and Cleopatra. The Greek historian Plutarch wrote that Antony became infuriated at his war partner Cleopatra, when she had withdrawn her troops and warships to Alexandria before it could be determined that the Battle at Actium was over. The forces of Octavian and Agrippa were the victors.

According to another version of the defeat at Actium, Cleopatra did not run away or withdraw early. Her escape and Antony's as well, was a carefully planned scheme. Antony knew he had got himself bottled up and his rowers were dying off in his overcrowded and disease ridden camp. So the plan was to fake off Agrippa and draw him to the upper end of the battle area. With this done, Cleopatra would make her break-out of the bay and head for Egypt. Antony and whoever else could get away would follow. This could easily be accomplished because of the afternoon wind that always blew at that time of year. This is the reason that Antony ordered his ships to take their sails and masts along with them, which was unusual during a battle.

if Cleopatra had a cat it would be a sphinx cause that was the only breed there is for a cat back in the Egyptian times. a sphinx is a cat that has no fur or whiskers but i don't think she had a cat im not that sure.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

The son that Cleopatra claimed was fathered by Julius Caesar was officially Ptolemy XV, but he was nicknamed Caesarion.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra never ruled Egypt. Caesar established her on the throne and left. Cleopatra was the ruler along with her brother, not Caesar.

"Alexander Hilius" (The Sun) and "Cleopatra Selene" (The Moon).

Many Romans were appalled at Antony's relationship with Cleopatra. She was a foreigner, while Antony had a Roman wife. She lived a luxurious lifestyle, and at the time, Romans frowned on too luxurious a life as they thought it led to decadence. They accused Cleopatra of luring him away from Roman values, especially when Antony took to wearing the Greek style of clothing and remaining in the east while leaving his supporters to handle his affairs in Rome. Even Antony's most loyal supporters, thought Cleopatra had an evil influence on Antony.

Actually, no one wrote about Cleopatra during her lifetime. After her death, her physician wrote about her last days, and several poets and historians mentioned her. During her lifetime she was simply not important enough to be written about. It was only after her death that all the hoopla about her emerged.

Hieroglyphs told stories about a Pharaoh's life, or a god's. That tells us what life was like back then, and gives a better representation of Egyptian life.

Both mark Antony and Octavian were men. They did not marry each other. They became allies.

Octavian fought against Mark Antony at the battle of Mutina (in northern italy) in 43 BC and helped to defeat him. Cicero had played the two men against each other and had made Octavian as a senator. Octavian fought for the senate. However the senate gave more rewards to another man, Decimus Brutus, for the defeat of Mark Antony, and tried to give the former the command of the consular legions. As a result Octavian refused to fight Mark Antony any further and demanded to be given the vacant office of consul and that that Mark Antony should be declared no longer an enemy of the state. When the senate refused, he marched on Rome with eight legions. He made himself be selected as consul. Meanwhile, Mark Antony allied with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, a leading former supporter of Caesar. At this point Octavian decided to join the alliance, which become what historians call the Second triumvirate (a three-man alliance).

About the only positive contribution Cleopatra made to the world was her embellishment of the great Library at Alexandria. If one takes an objective look at her reign, it's very difficult to find anything that did not serve to enhance Cleopatra herself. However in the realm of myth and misconception, she was/is tops. There are all sorts of "Cleopatra Credits" that are preposterous. All Cleopatra was, was a queen, doing the best she could, using any means possible, to preserve her country and her dynasty.

Im doing a report on her she lived through the death of her siblings killing some and being forced to marry her brothers (Yuck) and many many people trying to kill her and her father being a drunk and her husbands killing them sleves and even suicide

this link has got all letters in hieroglyphics http://www.jimloy.com/hiero/yourname.htm

Cleopatra is depicted on the silver screen as a great beauty. We hear that Cleopatra seduced the great Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and we assume that Cleopatra used her great beauty as a diplomatic aid in putting Egypt on a more favorable footing with Rome. However, we don't know whether Cleopatra was a beauty. Instead, what evidence we have seems to suggest she was not. Unfortunately, Cleopatra, strapped by great debt incurred under the reign of her father, Ptolemy Auletes (Ptolemy the flute-player), thought it imprudent to mint gold coins, so only lesser metals were used to commemorate her reign. The imprint on gold would have survived the centuries better than baser metals. Only ten individual coins from the reign of Cleopatra have survived in very good, but not mint condition, according to Guy Weill Goudchaux, in his article "Was Cleopatra Beautiful?" in the British Museum's publication "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth." This is significant because coins have provided excellent records of the faces of many monarchs. In one set of coins Cleopatra and Mark Antony look very similar. In another set, she has "an enormous neck and the features of a bird of prey."

Cleopatra may have been beautiful, ugly, or somewhere in between. Certainly, she was intelligent, a good diplomat, and queen of an area important for Rome, so it is no wonder that leaders of Rome like Caesar and Mark Antony, would fall in love with Cleopatra, while another Roman leader, Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus), would fear and revile her.

Since Egypt was under Rome's possession and that it was in debt the motivation was higher. Cleopatra was relatively self-centred and she also wanted to assure her future as Pharaoh by controlling Caesar in a sexual way. She did not accomplish her goal through her affair with Caesar, who was later killed in an assassination mostly planned by Brutus, a senator who never supported Caesar. Octavius was the next heir of the throne, as established by Caesar. Mark Anthony on the other hand was a man that loved Caesar and was a close devoted friend of Caesar's. The roman empire later splits into 2 regions with 2 different leaders. Octavius gains the west and Mark Anthony the gains the east while his romance with Cleopatra continues to grow. He previously married Octavius' sister Octavia however that does not keep him away from fully approaching his relationship with Cleopatra in a most serious way. He marries her and they have a pair of twins, a girl and a boy, and another male child. As a couple they unfortunately lose a major battle which changes everything. Octavius wins the eastern territory. Rome was also struggling with a civil war. Mark dies at Cleopatra's feet and as you may know Cleopatra kills herself with a snake. They were buried together where archaeologists believe was in a place 20 miles away from Alexandria.

Cleopatra has been described as being a whore, an evil and selfish person. It could have been an image created by Octavius in order to make her appear to be a person no one should look up to which such a stereotypical idea, her real self becomes very hard to be studied. She was an intellectual, a very passionate, and technical person. She had a magnetic personality.

She was the last Pharaoh of Egypt. A good movie about Cleopatra is the 1999 production.

Cleopatra' s main goals were to keep her dynasty alive and to keep her country independent.

One of the most famous queens of ancient Egypt is Cleopatra Ptolemy, even though she had more Greek blood than Egyptian. After enduring many hard times--including the death of her sisters, her father, and her younger brother--she finally died in tragedy when her lover, Mark Anthony, believed her to be dead, stabbing himself, and it turned out she was really alive and hiding from him within a church. he was brought to her and slowly died in her arms. She was the last queen of Ancient Egypt. Another well-acknowledged queen was Neferititi. (See are there some Egyptian queens)

We don't know how old Cleopatra was when her mother died. And if you are referring to Cleopatra the VII, we don't know for certain that Cleopatra V was her mother. Some sources say Cleo's mother was a lady from Memphis, but this could very well be Cleopatra V as she is described as a lady of "obscure origins".

As a ruler Cleopatra was able to initially stabilize her position by being allied to Rome. She used Marc Antony to get territorial concessions that made Egypt as large as it was in the heyday of the Pharaohs. By murdering her brother and sister, she was able to insure that her descendants would rule after her---uh, that is, if things had turned out differently after Actium.