After losing the battle Antony heard rumours that Cleopatra had committed suicide, the news causing him to fall on his sword and die just as news arrived that the rumour was false.
After burying Antony, Cleopatra locked herself in her chambers and joined her lover in death. Her cause of death is unknown, but Plutarch and other writers proposed the story that she used to a poisonous snake, a symbol of divine royalty, to commit suicide at age As you can see Cleopatra had many ties to Rome, both helping them and causing them trouble during her reign in Egypt.
With the love affairs, the scandals and the children which resulted along with her dramatic death, it is no wonder that Cleopatra remains a dominant figure in popular culture.
She even took the matter of her death into her own hands. After his victory over Armenia in 34 B. Antony held a Roman style victory parade in Alexandria dressed as Dionysus and riding into the city on a chariot to present the royal prisoners to Cleopatra, who was seated on a golden throne. The idea of ruler worship was in a way soon adopted by Octavian when he became the first emperor of Rome taking the title of Augustus The Majestic. Centuries after her death Cleopatra still captivates historians, storytellers, artists and the public in general.
It was the work of the masterful playwright that immortalized Cleopatra , making her into the popular cultural icon that she is. Many plays, poetry, paintings, operas and movies have since been made on the Egyptian queen. Her image of being an exotic seductive queen are still used to sell a wide range of products. Hi this was the only helpful article after hours of searching! Thank you so much! Can I just ask where you got the information that would be so helpful. Over the next three centuries, his descendants would follow in his path.
At its height, Ptolemaic Egypt was one of the world's great powers. Little is known about Cleopatra's mother, but some speculation presumes she may have been her father's sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaena.
Debate also surrounds Cleopatra's ethnicity, as some suggest she may have, in part, been descended from Black Africans. In 51 B. It is likely that the two siblings married, as was customary at the time. Over the next few years Egypt struggled to face down a number of issues, from an unhealthy economy to floods to famine. Political turmoil also shaped this period. Eventually Cleopatra fled to Syria, where she assembled an army to defeat her rival in order to declare the throne for herself.
In 48 B. Around this same time, the civil war between military leaders Julius Caesar and Pompey was consuming Rome. Pompey eventually sought refuge in Egypt, but, on orders by Ptolemy, was killed.
In pursuit of his rival, Caesar followed Pompey into Egypt, where he met and eventually fell in love with Cleopatra. In Caesar, Cleopatra now had access to enough military muscle to dethrone her brother and solidify her grip on Egypt as sole ruler. Cleopatra eventually followed Caesar back to Rome, but returned to Egypt in 44 B.
She had Caesarion, her eldest son, represented on the temple wall at Dendera alongside her, as sharing her rule. After her death, the Roman emperor Augustus lured Caesarion back with promises of power, only to have him killed. He was aged 16 or 17, though some sources say he was as young as The twins were aged 10 and Ptolemy six when their mother died.
The adult Cleopatra Selene was married to Juba, a minor king, and sent to rule with him over Mauretania. Augustus founded his reign on the defeat of Cleopatra. When he had the chance to have a month named in his own honour, instead of choosing September — the month of his birth — he chose the eighth month, in which Cleopatra died, to create a yearly reminder of her defeat.
Augustus would have liked to lead Cleopatra as a captive through Rome, as other generals did with their prisoners, in the formal triumphs that celebrated their victories.
But she killed herself to prevent that. Like Mark Antony, who killed himself because there was no longer a place of honour for him in the world, Cleopatra chose to die rather than suffer the violence of being paraded, shamed and helpless, through Rome. Augustus had to make do with an image of her that was carried through the streets instead. But years then passed before Cleopatra was born — 12 generations, with all their love affairs and secret assignations.
Cleopatra gives birth to her first child, whom she names Ptolemy Caesar — known as Caesarion.
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