Egyptian women ascended the throne of Egypt
A number of queens sat on the throne of Egypt, and among those queens was a queen who had a strong personality and used the weapons of her femininity and intelligence, which are the most powerful weapons of a woman who empowered herself with one of the most deadly weapons, namely *Queen Cleopatra VII)...
*Cleopatra VII*
She was the daughter of Ptolemy
Cleopatra was a beloved and close daughter to her father, and it is most likely that she accompanied him during his period of exile from Egypt and traveled with him from Egypt to Athens and then to Rome.
When Ptolemy XII died, he left a will guaranteeing Rome that his eldest son, Ptolemy
Cleopatra shared six rulers:
1/ Her father was Ptolemy XII.
2/ Her two brothers, Ptolemy XIII and XIV.
3/ Her son Caesarion.
4/ Her lovers, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
- Although Cleopatra VII was one of the most powerful rulers of Egypt, and even though she was the controlling power in Egypt and had actual rule alongside her partners, her era was not blessed with calm, nor was she comfortable with tranquility. She tried to rule alone from the first day of her sitting on the throne next to her brother, and she and her brother owned... The ambition for each of them to rule independently led to a severe conflict between them.
When Julius Caesar learned of the problems between the two brothers, he sent for them. Cleopatra entered the palace through her servant, who wrapped her in a carpet, and she emerged from it as Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. Julius Caesar was fascinated by her, and Cleopatra soon gave birth to a son from Julius Caesar, named Caesar, and the Egyptians mockingly called him Caesarion.
During that period of Cleopatra's rule, Egypt witnessed a strong renaissance in economics and political life.
Cleopatra visited Rome and met Caesar. She stayed there for two years, then Julius Caesar was killed. Caesar's unexpected end was a violent shock to Cleopatra, who returned to Egypt and declared her son Caesarion her partner in ruling Egypt after she killed her brother, Ptolemy XIV.
Cleopatra did not make much effort. Mark Antony was fully prepared to fall into her trap, fathered three children with her, and announced his marriage to her, in violation of Roman law, which did not allow marriage to foreign women. He declared that all the eastern states belonged to Cleopatra and that Alexandria was the capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. Thus, Octavius declared war on Mark Antony and Cleopatra and succeeded in obtaining the approval of the Senate to wage a war to eliminate Cleopatra and Antony. Indeed, the two parties met in a famous battle, which was the battle of...
*Actium marine*
Which ended with the defeat of Cleopatra VII and her companion Mark Antony and the suicide of the latter. This was followed by the suicide of Cleopatra herself, and the queen chose the serpent to be the tool to save her from her life. This had a “significance” because the cobra was a servant of the sun god and its bite granted immortality and divinity.
_*With the death of Cleopatra, the last pages of the Ptolemaic era were closed in Egypt and in the entire Hellenistic world*_
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