"Cleopatra" published May 13,1934 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Cleopatra was a wise and ambitious queen, by her wisdom and her wiles she managed to cajole Julius Caesar into keeping the rapacious hands of Rome off Egypt. After he was assassinated she picked Marc Antony for her protector. In BC 31 Antony and Octavian, whom Caesar had adopted, were fighting each other for the mastery of the Roman Empire. Antony’s forces were winning on land, but the sea battle, off Actium, was in doubt. Cleopatra was on one vessel on Antony on another.News was brought to Cleopatra Stock Photo - Alamy
Download this stock image: Cleopatra published May 13,1934 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Cleopatra was a wise and ambitious queen, by her wisdom and her wiles she managed to cajole Julius Caesar into keeping the rapacious hands of Rome off Egypt. After he was assassinated she picked Marc Antony for her protector. In BC 31 Antony and Octavian, whom Caesar had adopted, were fighting each other for the mastery of the Roman Empire. Antony’s forces were winning on land…
Cleopatra, Egyptian queen, the lover of Julius Caesar and later the wife of Mark Antony with Octavian. Cleopatra 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 the combined forces of Antony and Cleopatra, they both committed suicide and Egypt fell under Roman domination Stock Photo - Alamy
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