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She
was a member of the
Ptolemaic dynasty of
Ancient Egypt, and therefore was a
descendant of one of
Alexander the Great's generals who had
seized control over Egypt after Alexander's death. Most Ptolemeis spoke
Greek and refused to learn Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as
well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents like
the
Rosetta Stone. By contrast, Cleopatra
learned Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an
Egyptian Goddess.
Cleopatra originally ruled jointly with her father
Ptolemy XII Auletes and later with her
brothers,
Ptolemy XIII and
Ptolemy XIV, whom she married as per
Egyptian custom, but eventually she became sole ruler. As pharaoh, she
consummated a liaison with Gaius
Julius Caesar that solidified her grip
on the throne. She later elevated her son with Caesar,
Caesarion, to co-ruler in name..
After
Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, she
aligned with
Mark Antony
Augustus). With Antony, she bore the
twins
Cleopatra Selene II and
Alexander Helios, and another son,
Ptolemy Philadelphus. Her unions with
her brothers produced no children. After losing the
Battle of Actium to Octavian's forces,
Antony committed suicide. Cleopatra followed suit, according to
tradition killing herself by means of an
asp bite on August 12, 30 BC. She was
briefly outlived by Caesarion, who was declared pharaoh, but he was soon
killed on Octavian's orders. Egypt became the
Roman province of
Aegyptus.
Though Cleopatra bore the ancient Egyptian title of pharaoh, the
Ptolemaic dynasty was
Hellenistic, having been founded 300
years before by
Ptolemy I Soter, a
Macedonian
Greek general of
Alexander the Great.[4][5][6][7]
As such, Cleopatra's language was the
Greek spoken by the Hellenic
aristocracy, though she was reputed to be the first ruler of the dynasty
to learn
Egyptian. She also adopted common
Egyptian beliefs and deities. Her patron goddess was
Isis, and thus, during her reign, it
was believed that she was the re-incarnation and embodiment of the
goddess of wisdom. Her death marked the end of the
Ptolemaic Kingdom and
Hellenistic period and the beginning of
the
Roman era in the eastern
Mediterranean.
To this day, Cleopatra remains a popular figure in Western culture.
Her legacy survives in numerous works of art and the many dramatizations
of her story in literature and other media, including
William Shakespeare's tragedy
Antony and Cleopatra,
Jules Massenet
Cléopâtre and the 1963 film
Cleopatra. In most depictions,
Cleopatra is put forward as a great beauty and her successive conquests
of the world's most powerful men are taken to be proof of her aesthetic
and sexual appeal. In his
Pensées, philosopher
Blaise Pascal contends that Cleopatra's
classically beautiful profile changed world history: "Cleopatra's nose,
had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been
changed."