Transcript The Legacy of Cleopatra

The Legacy of Cleopatra
By: Leah Clemmer
The Only Pharaoh …
Cleopatra was the only
pharaoh in the 300-year
Ptolemaic dynasty who
could actually speak
Egyptian.
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Lead by example
• Learned her political
lessons by watching
the humiliating efforts
of her father to
maintain himself on
the throne of Egypt by
buying the support of
powerful Romans.
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Sibling Love
• Cleopatra shared the
throne with her younger
brother-husband, Ptolemy
XIII. As strange as that
sounds to us now,
brothers and sisters
marrying was not
uncommon for the royalty
of ancient Egypt
(sometimes it was the
only way for a woman to
rule)
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Tragedy
• After Caesarion was
born, Cleopatra and
her son left Egypt for
Rome in 46 BC to be
with Caesar.
Unfortunately, the
relationship ended in
tragedy when Caesar
was assassinated
some of his former
friends in 44 BC
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Love Triangle
• -Antony left his wife
around 37 BC and soon
met up with Cleopatra
again. He hoped she
would help him gain more
power and lands. The two
joined forces politically
and personally. They
married and had a third
child together Ptolemy
Philadelphus. With their
children, they ruled many
lands besides Egypt,
including Cyprus, Crete,
and Syria.
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Falsely Deceived
• Soon after Antony killed
himself. By some
accounts, he did this after
hearing a false report that
Cleopatra was dead.
Cleopatra did not want to
be captured by Octavian
so she committed suicide
in 30 BC. (Some reports
say she poisoned herself
and another popular story
goes that Cleopatra died
after letting a poisonous
asp, a type of snake, bite
her.)
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The Loss of the Pharaoh
• She probably used an
asp (an Egyptian
cobra snake) for the
job because Egyptian
religion said death by
snakebite would
ensure immortality.
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A Great Woman
• "She captivated the
two greatest Romans
of her day, and
because of the third
she destroyed
herself."
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Interesting Tactics
• had herself delivered
to Julius Caesar's
presence in a rug and
won his support.
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A Luring Woman
• She is irresistible to
men is undeniable;
she is also
dangerous. Like a
black widow spider,
she lures Antony into
her lair, uses him
sexually, and, by
robbing him of his
reason, renders him
powerless.
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