Cleopatra's meeting Mark Antony was truly dramatic. When she was summoned to meet the Triumvirate —AKA the three men who took power in Rome after the death of Caesar —she sailed down the Nile on a golden barge adorned with purple sails and silver oars. Cleopatra, dressed as the goddess Aphrodite, arrived to meet Mark Antony. Power grabs and murder plots were as much a Ptolemaic tradition as family marriage, and Cleopatra and her brothers and sisters were no different. Her first sibling-husband, Ptolemy XIII, ran her out of Egypt after she tried to take sole possession of the throne, and the pair later faced off in a civil war. Cleopatra regained the upper hand by teaming with Julius Caesar, and Ptolemy drowned in the Nile River after being defeated in battle. Following the war, Cleopatra remarried to her younger brother Ptolemy XIV, but she is believed to have had him murdered in a bid to make her son her co-ruler. In 41 B.C., she also engineered the execution of her sister, Arsinoe, who she considered a rival to the throne. 5. Cleopatra knew how to make an entrance.

Though Cleopatra’s only recorded lovers are Mark Antony and the famous Julius Caesar, her sexuality has become something of renown. This is because her lovers were public but privately selected by the queen herself. A typical royal romance in Egypt was arranged between the siblings for the purpose of keeping the bloodline pure. However, Cleopatra birthed heirs only from Roman men who served her political gains—unlike her brothers. She was ruthless in her pursuit of power, inspiring scholars and creatives for thousands of years. JFK knew that he was different even at the very beginning of his life. First of all, there had to be a bunch of genetic modifications to the Original JFK’s DNA due to the fact that he had many diseases and Mr.Scudworth didn’t want JFK‘s life to be absolutely miserable. In turbulent times, three Romans find their way to one another. Language: English Words: 47,047 Chapters: 8/? Comments: 21 Kudos: 47 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 1,007In 50 BC, only a year after she ascended to the throne, Cleopatra became embroiled in a dispute between Roman troops and a Syrian governor. When Cleopatra sided with the Syrians, the Romans retaliated by helping her husband-brother Ptolemy XIII steal the throne from her. Caesar was already married and had children, but Cleopatra asked him to make their son Caesarian his heir and successor. His reaction was utterly heartless. He refused Cleopatra, and to add insult to injury, he named his grand-nephew Octavian—who ruled under the name Augustus—as his successor instead.

Basically a dramatic rewrite of season one from the prospective of JFK, and he is very bad at feelings. (I edited the summery bc the one I wrote before wasn’t conveying what I meant it to.) He’s gonna go through it for this book 💀 Language: English Words: 20,470 Chapters: 8/? Comments: 4 Kudos: 66 Bookmarks: 3 Hits: 778 Of course, we don't all have Hollywood budgets. No one has to layer themselves in pounds of gold like Elizabeth Taylor to put together sexy Cleopatra costumes. With flowing robes and unique cuts, there are styles that will flatter every body type and make anyone feel like a queen. Octavian told her he'd keep her alive, but that was all he said. When she heard rumors that she'd be taken to Rome, she was horrified —she didn't want to be paraded around as a prisoner. Once again, she prepared to take her own life, and this time, she was successful. She died in August, 30 BC, at the age of 39, alongside two of her servants. When the Roman leader Octavian was offered a chance to name a month in his honor, he chose August, the month he defeated Cleopatra, instead of his September birth month, as his success was founded on her loss. He took the name Emperor Augustus, and he carried a statue of her through Rome's streets every August in triumph. Doubts have been cast on the theory, however, as other experts believe Cleopatra was hastily buried in Alexandria itself - the city from where she ruled Egypt until her death, believed to have been caused by snake venom.set in early 2000s) Language: English Words: 4,194 Chapters: 3/? Comments: 1 Kudos: 11 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 129

An impressive move, and one that endeared herself to Mark Antony, who fancied himself to be an embodiment of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and revelry. Indeed, Nabokov’s vocabulary could not be more fitting. Nabokov defines a nymphet as “between the age limits of nine and fourteen…who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic.” Such is Cleopatra: a young girl who tempts her self-professed mentor Julius Caesar, despite seeming to be utterly unaware of her wiles. And much in the way of other Lolita characters, Cleopatra is sexually vulnerable to Caesar due to his age and power over her and this vulnerability is a tantalizing undercurrent throughout Caesar and Cleopatra. A series of one-shots about two adults who missed out on being frozen when they were teens because they thought it would be super cool to ditch Prom and run off to have a magical romantic night leading to a life on the run, biker gangs, marriage, the knitting circle from hell, Mystery Solving Teens, a baby or two, and learning that there is no escape from high school in a teen show. Language: English Words: 37,271 Chapters: 8/? Comments: 32 Kudos: 58 Bookmarks: 11 Hits: 1,157 They stood together as partners against Egypt’s enemies, and were married in an Egyptian ceremony—despite the fact that Antony already had a wife in Rome.There's speculation to this day about the way that Cleopatra took her own life. She'd been known for her penchant for poison, so it's generally agreed upon that it played a role, with one rumor claiming she'd poisoned herself. One of the most generally accepted stories is that she induced an asp (an Egyptian cobra) to bite her.

Though married to Octavian's sister, Anthony formed a relationship with Cleopatra and had three children with her. Within months of taking the throne, Cleopatra made it clear she had no interest in sharing power with her younger brother. Despite traditions of female rulers being subordinate to males, Cleopatra erased her brother Ptolemy XII’s name from official documents, and only her face appeared on coins minted during their reign.

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Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra; Flora Robson as Ftatateeta in ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ by Wilfrid Newton, 1945, via the National Portrait Gallery, London