Was Cleopatra the last queen of Egypt?
Greek for “Famous in Her Father,” Cleopatra, or Cleopatra the Father-Loving Goddess, was an Egyptian queen who rose to fame in history and theatre as Julius Caesar’s lover and then as Mark Antony’s wife. She was born in 70 or 69 BCE and died in Alexandria on August 30, BCE. She governed in succession alongside…
Greek for “Famous in Her Father,” Cleopatra, or Cleopatra the Father-Loving Goddess, was an Egyptian queen who rose to fame in history and theatre as Julius Caesar’s lover and then as Mark Antony’s wife. She was born in 70 or 69 BCE and died in Alexandria on August 30, BCE. She governed in succession alongside her two brothers, Ptolemy XIII (51-47) and Ptolemy XIV (47-44) as well as her son, Ptolemy XV Caesar, after the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 BCE (44–30). After their combined forces were routed by the Roman soldiers of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus), Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, and Egypt came under Roman rule. At a pivotal time in Roman history, Cleopatra actively affected events and became, more than any other woman in antiquity, the idealized femme fatale.
Was Cleopatra the last queen of Egypt?
The last of a line of kings known as the Ptolemies, who governed Ancient Egypt for about 300 years, was Cleopatra VII, also known simply as “Cleopatra.”
