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Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt. Her mother was believed to be Cleopatra V and her father was Ptolemy XII. She had two brothers and three sisters. Berenice IV and Cleopatra VI were her two older siblings, and her three younger siblings were Arsinoe IV, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV.
Cleopatra was 18 when she became the queen of Egypt after both her 2 older sisters were murdered. But to become queen Cleopatra was forced to have a consort throughout her reign. She was married to her younger brother Ptolemy XIII when he was twelve. Regardless of the Ptolemaic insistence that the male presence be first among co-rulers, she excluded Ptolemy from most things. By 46 BC a group of men led by Theodotus, Pothinus and, Achillas, overthrew her in favor of her younger brother, because he was easier to influence. At that time Cleopatra is thought to have fled to Thebaid.
While Cleopatra was gone Egypt was suffering from bad harvests because of a drought which stopped the much needed Nile flooding.
In 48 BC Caesar arrived in Alexandria. Ptolemy XIII was gone to Pelusium and Caesar placed himself in the royal palace and started giving out orders. Caesar brought with him around 4,000 military men as a badge of authority and everyone knew his intentions. Because of that there were riots in Alexandria. The eunuch, Pothinus, brought Ptolemy back to Alexandria.
At this point, Cleopatra decided she was not being left out of any deals that were going to be made. In order to get into the palace she had herself smuggled in rolled in a carpet and delivered to Caesar. Cleopatra and Caesar became lovers overnight and Ptolemy realized this right away. Ptolemy felt very betrayed and tried to get an angry mob aginst them. He was soon captured by Caesar’s guards and brought back to the palace. It is thought that Caesar had planned to make Cleopatra the next ruler of Alexandria.
The Alexandrian War was started when Pothinus called for Ptolemy XIII’s soldiers in November and surrounded Caesar in Alexandria with twenty thousand men. Cleopatra’s sister, Arsinoe, escaped from the palace and ran to Achillas. She was announced queen by the Macedonian mob and the army. During the fighting, Caesar executed Pothinus, and Ptolemy XIII drowned in the Nile while he was trying to escape.
With Ptolemy XIII out of the way Cleopatra was now the sole ruler of Egypt. She now had to marry her younger brother Ptolemy XIV, who was eleven years old. A very short time later Cleopatra and Caesar had a son Caesarion who was born on June 23, 47 BC.
In 46 BC, Caesar returned to Rome and recieved many awards. Celebrations lasted from September to October and he brought Cleopatra over along with Caesarion. The relationship between Cleopatra and Caesar was obvious for the Roman people and it was a scandal, because Caesar was already married to Calpurnia Pisonis. The conservative Republicans were very offended when he established Cleopatra in his home. She upset a lot of people. But Caesar openly claimed Caesarion as his son. Many were upset that he was planning to marry Cleopatra even though there were laws against marriages to foreigners.
Cleopatra was in Rome when Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. She returned with her relatives to Egypt. Ptolemy XIV died, said to be poisoned by Cleopatra. She then made Caesarion her co-regent and successor.

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btw im not even done i still have to write about her and anthony and her death