Cleopatra and her family were not Egyptian. They were from Macedonia, a country in northern Greece. She was the only member of her family that learned to speak Egytian. Cleopatra’s father was Ptolemy XII of Egypt. He was part of the dynasty that started when the Greek Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, putting it under Greek rule. Ptolemy XII was married to his sister, and Cleopatra was his third daughter. Cleopatra was sometimes called Cleopatra VII because she was the seventh Egyptian queen of Macedonian descent with the name Cleopatra. When Cleopatra was 12, she and her father Ptolemy XII fled Egypt and went to Rome. While they were gone, Ptolemy’s second daughter seized power of Egypt. Roman troops brought Ptolemy XII bac

Back in Rome, after Caesar’s death, a struggle for power took place. It ended with victory for two leading men: Gaius Octavian, who was Caesar’s nineteen-year-old adopted son; and Mark Antony, forty-year-old military commander and politician. Octavian and Antony split the Greek empire between them, with Octavian taking Western Europe and Antony, the Roman East. Antony met Cleopatra when she was in Rome. She took advantage of his weakness towards women. Like Caesar, Antony was captivated by Cleopatra. Cleopatra loved Antony, too. Like Caesar, Antony was married. While Antony was visiting Egypt, his wife was killed. Cleopatra was disappointed that instead of coming to her, he married Octavian’s sister, Octavia. That same year (46 B.C.) Cleopatra had twins, a boy Alexander Helios and a girl Cleopatra Selene fathered by Antony. Cleopatra was upset that Antony wasn’t coming back and that he married someone intelligent who was younger and more beautiful, and intelligent. In 39 B.C, Antony and his wife Octavia moved to Athens, Greece. Then, in 37 B.C. he went back to Cleopatra in Egypt. They had a sort of marriage ceremony before having another son, Ptolemy Philadelphos, in 36 B.C. Octavian got mad at Antony and Cleopatra and declared war against Cleo

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