Cleopatra

Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt and the country’s final active monarch, Cleopatra VII Philopator governed Egypt between the years 51 BC and 30 BC as queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Her rule began in the year 51 BC and ended in the year 30 BC. She was a member of the…

Following the defeat of her soldiers against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, commits suicide. Cleopatra obituary, burial, funeral, memorial service Cleopatra obituary The final of a line of kings known as the Ptolemies who governed Egypt for nearly 300 years was…

After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Rome once again descended into civil war, which was only temporarily resolved in 43 B.C. with the formation of the second triumvirate. This triumvirate was composed of Octavian, Caesar’s great-nephew and chosen heir; Mark Antony, a powerful general; and Lepidus, a Roman statesman. Octavian was the chosen heir of…

Cleopatra Vll Philopator was queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC. When Ptolemy XII Auletes was banished from Egypt in 58–55 BC, Cleopatra had to watch as his daughter Berenice assumed control. She was the sole legitimate offspring of Ptolemy, according to the ancient Greek historian Strabo. This information lends…

Cleopatra VII Philopator was the Queen of the Ptolemic Kindom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. Cleopatra was born on 69 BC. Cleopatra supported the Roman Second Triumvirate, which was made up of Octavian, Mark Antony, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Caesar’s grandnephew and heir, in the civil war between…

Between 323 and 30 BC, Egypt was ruled by the Macedonian dynasty, whose ultimate king was Cleopatra. She was Ptolemy XII Auletes’s oldest child. Ptolemy, an Alexander the Great general who later rose to become King Ptolemy I Soter, founded the Ptolemaic dynasty. Cleopatra, who was 18 at the time, and her younger brother Ptolemy…

Ptolemy I “Soter,” Cleopatra’s ancestor, was a commander under Alexander the Great and a close friend of Alexander. Cleopatra was descended from the Ptolemies. The Ptolemaic Period covered the reign of the Ptolemaic Dynasty over Egypt from 305 BC to 30 BC.   Despite being born in Egypt, Cleopatra did not have Egyptian heritage. She…

Cleopatra was recognized mainly for her interactions with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the time that she reigned as queen of Egypt (51–30 BCE).   During this time, she actively affected Roman politics during a pivotal period. She came to symbolize, as no other lady of antiquity did, the archetype of the romantic femme…

Cleopatra the late Egypt queen was in 69 BC and died in 30 BC. She was 39 years. Cleopatra was much more than the tragic heroine or femme fatale that history frequently depicts her as a formidable leader and politician. Between 51 and 30 BC, she ruled a nation that had been bankrupt and torn…

The seventh Egyptian dynasty Alexandria, Egypt is where Thea Philopator was born. Cleopatra, her father, was a prominent figure in the Greek community. It is only logical that her full name, “Cleopatra the Father-Loving Goddess,” accurately describes her. Cleopatra was born into an Egyptian royal family, yet she was of Macedonian descent. After her father,…

Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last Ptolemaic monarch of Egypt, ruled from 51 to 30 BC. She lasted from the age of 69 to 10 August 30 BC. She belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty and was a direct ancestor of Alexander the Great’s ally and Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter. The second-to-last Hellenistic monarchy and…

Cleopatra VII Philopator, who reigned as the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt’s final active monarch from 51 to 30 BC, lived from 69 BC to 10 August 30 BC. For nearly three decades, Cleopatra VII co-ruled ancient Egypt (first with her father, then with her two younger brothers, and last with her son). She belonged to…