Biography
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator: The Last Queen of Egypt and the Prototype of the Romantic Femme Fatale
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was the last queen of Egypt and was born in 70/69 BCE and died on August 30 BCE in Alexandria. She was famous in history and drama as the lover of Julius Caesar and later as the wife of Mark Antony. She became queen on the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 BCE and ruled successively with her two brothers Ptolemy XIII (51–47) and Ptolemy XIV (47–44) and her son Ptolemy XV Caesar (44–30). After the Roman armies of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) defeated their combined forces, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, and Egypt fell under Roman domination.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator
Cleopatra was of Macedonian descent and had little, if any, Egyptian blood. She was destined to become the last queen of the Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and its annexation by Rome in 30 BCE. Coin portraits of Cleopatra show a countenance alive rather than beautiful, with a sensitive mouth, firm chin, liquid eyes, broad forehead, and prominent nose. Cleopatra was a powerful and influential queen who actively influenced Roman politics at a crucial period. She came to represent, as did no other woman of antiquity, the prototype of the romantic femme fatale. If you want to read more about Cleopatra’s life and biography, you can check out this link from Britannica …
