Queen Cleopatra is known as one of the greatest seductresses ever. While books and films of her great seductive powers are in existence, she was more than that to the Egyptians and the ancient world:
1. Cleopatra was born in Alexandria, Egypt to the Macedonian Greek dynasty in 69BC and was a descendant of its founder, Ptolemy I Soter. It is often argued that she shared Persian ancestry. This is because the Ptolemies were forbidden to marry Egyptians at her time.
2. Under the tutelage of Philostratus, she was well versed in the Greek art of oration, philosophy and medicine. During her adult years, she would go on to become a naval commander.
3. After her father Ptolemy XII’s death in 51BC, she became a co-ruler with her brother, Ptolemy XIII, but had a disagreement which led to a…
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