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During her early childhood, Cleopatra was brought up in the palace of Alexandria in Egypt and received a primarily Hellenistic Greek education. By adulthood she was well-versed in many languages, including Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabic, Median, Parthian, Latin, and her native Koine Greek . Cleopatra's father was a client ruler of the ...
e. Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator ( Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ[ note 5 ]lit.'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; [ note 6 ] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [ note 7 ] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its ...
The reign of Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt began with the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, by March 51 BC. It ended with her suicide in August 30 BC, [ note 1] which also marked the conclusion of the Hellenistic period and the annexation of Egypt into a Roman province. [ note 2] In the style of her Greek predecessors ...
932/.021092 B. LC Class. 2010006988. Preceded by. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005) Followed by. The Witches: Salem, 1692 (2015) Cleopatra: A Life is a book written by biographer Stacy Schiff, first published by Little Brown in 2010. [1]
Ptolemy Philadelphus ( Greek: Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Φιλάδελφος, Ptolemaios Philadelphos, "Ptolemy the brother-loving", August/September 36 BC – 29 BC) was a Ptolemaic prince and was the youngest and fourth [ 1] child of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and her third with Roman Triumvir Mark Antony .
Antiochus III the Great. Mother. Laodice III. Cleopatra I Syra ( Greek: Κλεοπάτρα ἡ Σύρα; c. 204 – 176 BC) was a princess of the Seleucid Empire, Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy V of Egypt, and regent of Egypt during the minority of their son, Ptolemy VI, from her husband's death in 180 BC until her own death in ...
The book garnered a mostly positive reception for Chauveau's use of textual sources and its exploration of domestic changes which occurred within Egypt. [2] Helen Strudwick, reviewing a set of translations by Lorton, wrote that Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra was "a very readable and entertaining overview" of the period.
Cleopatra of Macedon. Cleopatra of Macedonia ( Greek: Κλεοπάτρα της Μακεδονίας; c. 355/354 BC – 308 BC), or Cleopatra of Epirus ( Greek: Κλεοπάτρα της Ηπείρου) was an ancient Macedonian princess and later queen regent of Epirus. The daughter of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias of Epirus, she was the ...