![]() ![]() She famously used her charms to first seduce Julius Caesar to cement Egypt's alliance with Rome, and then to seduce one of his successors, Mark Antony. Cleopatra did then kill herself shortly after her lover succumbed to his wounds.Ĭleopatra was Egypt's last pharaoh and the ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, from 51 BC until her death 30 BC, at the age of just 39.ĭuring her life, Cleopatra was known both as a seductress and as a captivating personality. ![]() Octavian then declared war on Cleopatra and Antony, defeating them both.Ĭleopatra then took refuge in the mausoleum she had commissioned for herself and her disappearance led to the belief that she had killed herself.Īntony died in Cleopatra's arms after fatally stabbing himself as he thought she had taken her own life. She used her charms to seduce Julius Caesar to cement Egypt's alliance with Rome, and then to seduce his second in command, Mark Antony.Īntony married another woman, Octavia, to mend a strained alliance with her brother, the ruler Octavian, although Antony later left his new wife for Cleopatra, violating a Roman law restricting Romans from marrying foreigners. The siblings ruled Egypt under the formal title of husband and wife.Ĭleopatra was known as a seductress and as a captivating personality. She ruled from 51 BC to 30 BC – up until the day she died.Ĭleopatra became Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt, upon the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, and her brother was made King Ptolemy XIII at the same time. ![]() Cleopatra was the last of a long line to Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt. ![]()
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