What did Ptolemy do to Cleopatra?
Cleopatra VII Philopator, who ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, lived between 69 BC and 10 August 30 BC. She belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty and was a direct descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, an Alexander the Great buddy and Macedonian Greek general. Egypt became a province of the Roman…
Cleopatra VII Philopator, who ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, lived between 69 BC and 10 August 30 BC. She belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty and was a direct descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, an Alexander the Great buddy and Macedonian Greek general. Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire after Cleopatra’s death, bringing to an end the second-to-last Hellenistic kingdom and the period that had spanned from the rule of Alexander (336–323 BC). She was the only Ptolemaic monarch to study Egyptian; her original tongue was Koine Greek.
What did Ptolemy do to Cleopatra?
Ptolemy’s advisors took action against Cleopatra soon after the siblings took the kingdom, forcing her to depart Egypt for Syria in 49 B.C. In order to fight her brother’s armies in a civil war at Pelusium, on Egypt’s eastern frontier, she gathered an army of hired assassins and returned the following year.
Pompey’s opponent, Julius Caesar, was welcomed to Alexandria by Ptolemy XIII after he had permitted the death of Pompey, the Roman general. Cleopatra supposedly snuck into the royal palace to make her case to Caesar in order to get his backing for her cause.
