Cleopatra VII
Biography
Greek Macedonian dynasty, she was the first Ptolemy to learn Egyptian. Caesar in Alexandria, Caesarion born, civil war after Ides. Antony, the Donations of Alexandria, Actium 31, the asp or poison, the dynasty and 3,000 years of pharaohs ended. Roman propaganda painted her temptress, Plutarch records the brilliant conversationalist, eleven languages. The eternal icon, Shakespeare to Taylor.
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