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Biography[]

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator(Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. She was a real love rat. cleos fancy life let her marry mark Anthony and Julius ceaser Played by: Martha Howe Douglas (2009-2013), Kathryn Drysdale (2015), Jessica Ransom (2017), Emily Lloyd-Saini (2019)

She wasn’t Egyptian

After the stuff about hiding in carpets, bathing in milk and being bitten by snakes (more on some of that later), the most famous thing associated with Cleopatra, who was born around 69 BCE, is Egypt. But in fact she was descended from Greeks and spoke Greek. Her dad was called Ptolemy and his ancestor was one of Alexandra the Great’s generals. Even her name is Greek. It translates as “great like her father”.

She married her brother

If, like me, you don’t really enjoy having to type out the word Ptolemy as your computer keeps trying to change it to “Potato” then you’re in for a bad time as there are many Ptolemys ahead. The first one was Cleopatra’s little brother Ptolemy XIII. After Cleo’s dad died, she was put in charge, but at the time women weren’t allowed to rule without a male co

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