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| Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra VII |
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| Cleopatra VII |
Cleopatra VII Philopator was the Egyptian queen. Daughter of
Ptolemy XII and perchance
Cleopatra VI Tryphaena. She followed her father alongside her earlier brother and check,
Ptolemy XIII, with whom she presently fell out. Their civil war was interrupted by the arrival in Egypt of Iulius Caesar who soon sided with Cleopatra and defeated her brothers rams in 47 BC during a battle in which he was defeated.
Cleopatra VII Philopator was set up as ruler of Egypt with her smaller brother,
Ptolemy XIV, as run, but she had become Caesars mistress and took him as the father of her son, Ptolemy Caesarion. She was in Rome in 44 BC when Caesar was late and hurriedly returned to Egypt. Her brother soon died and was superseded as ruling pharaoh by her son as
Ptolemy XV.
Cleopatra VII Philopator made an alliance with Marcus Antonius, who was in direction of the eastern Roman Empire, and took him 3 children. She used her involvement with Antonius to embellish Egypt to the detriment of other southeastern states. Their relationship gave Antoniuss touch, Augustus, the opportunity to vilify him in Rome and adjudge war on Egypt as a threat to Rome. Egyptian forces were frustrated at the
battle of Actium in 31 BC and, after the fall of Alexandria in 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Philopator committed suicide rather than be taken captive to Rome.
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