Cleopatra VII Philopator ( January 69 BC – August 30 BC) was the Queen of Ancient Egypt, the last member of Ptolemeus Dynasty. Even though there were a lot of Egypt Queens who used the same name, she was the one known as The Cleopatra, and the other Cleopatras will just gonna be forgotten.
She was the ruler of Egypt along with her father Ptolemeus XII, her brother Ptolemeus XIII and her husband Ptolemeus XIV, and then later her son Caesarion. She succeeded in overcoming the cudeta planned by her brother's followers by forming an alliance with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Cleopatra had a child with Julius and three children with Mark Antony ( two of them were twins ).
Cleopatra commited suicide when Octavianus claimed the throne and attacked Egypt, by putting her own hand into a basket full of poisonous snakes ( Asp / a kind of cobra from North Africa ).
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