Cleopatra VII had two famous Roman political alliances, both producing children. The two Romans were?
Caesar arrived in Alexandria in 48 BC chasing Pompey (who had just been murdered at the Egyptian beach where he landed) and stayed long enough for Cleopatra to bear Caesarion in June 47 BC. Mark Antony arrived in 41 BC and produced twins (Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene II) in 40 BC and a younger son (Ptolemy Philadelphus) in 36 BC. Caesarion was executed by Octavian after Cleopatra's suicide. The twins were raised in Rome by Octavian's sister Octavia.
Read the full facts →Cleopatra VII Philopator (69–30 BC) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt and the last reigning Macedonian-Greek monarch of the Hellenistic world. Her political alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony made her central to the closing decades of the Roman Republic. Her suicide in August 30 BC ended both the Ptolemaic dynasty and three centuries of Hellenistic rule in Egypt.
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