The story of Cleopatra’s life has been told in many different forms. Cleopatra in all forms was a woman of mystery, power, sin, and eroticism.

When you think of the name Cleopatra what comes to mind? Many people may think that she was a saint for not just reason and that she committed suicide in the face of adversity. Other people may think that she was a deceiving, power hungry killer that had an obsession with men. In the two thousand years since Cleopatra’s death the vision of her has changed immensely (Hughes-Hallet 1). According to Lucy Hughes –Hallett, “the vision of Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it “(1). For example, Cecil B. Demille created a movie about her life making her “the wickedest woman in history “ (1). According to George Bernhard Shaw she was an emotionally disturbed sex kitten; to the painters of the Renaissance she was a helpless victim; to the poets of Romanticism she was a terrifying femme fatale, and to Arabic historian Al- Masudi she was a scholar and

He had just arrived in Tarsus. He summoned Cleopatra to that city in order that they might discuss “ political and financial matter of her fleet in the mouth of the Cydnus River (10). Antony took his seat in the marketplace and awaited her arrival. Cleopatra was in no mood and sent for Antony to her enchanted garden where she planned to seduce him (11). Her main objective for wanting Antony was to stir up a quarrel between himself and Octavian – Lepidus the third member of the triumvirate, was a man of no account. With Antony’s generalship and her own money they would overthrow Octavian and get the Roman throne (11).

Of making new conquests and solving the city of Rome’s problems (6).

During the Ides of March, 44 BC, Caesar was to be officially crowned (Thomas 7). As a good luck symbol for Caesar Cleopatra ordered one of her slaves to be suspended head down from the ceiling. Instead of hearing new that he was crowned she heard that he was stabbed twenty- three times.

Pothinus was amazed at what power Cleopatra had. He was weak and terrified of her strength. Pothinus gathered his forces to fight the on coming power of Cleopatra and war broke out, bringing the battle of Pharsalus (4).

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