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    Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and ruled Egypt from 51 BC. She married her brother Ptolemy XIII but was later exiled. She allied with Julius Caesar and bore his son Ptolemy. After Caesar's death she allied with Mark Antony in the Ptolemaic War against Octavian. Antony and Cleopatra's fleet was defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Trapped in Alexandria, both Cleopatra and Antony committed suicide rather than be captured by Octavian.

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    Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and ruled Egypt from 51 BC. She married her brother Ptolemy XIII but was later exiled. She allied with Julius Caesar and bore his son Ptolemy. After Caesar's death she allied with Mark Antony in the Ptolemaic War against Octavian. Antony and Cleopatra's fleet was defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Trapped in Alexandria, both Cleopatra and Antony committed suicide rather than be captured by Octavian.

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    Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and ruled Egypt from 51 BC. She married her brother Ptolemy XIII but was later exiled. She allied with Julius Caesar and bore his son Ptolemy. After Caesar's death she allied with Mark Antony in the Ptolemaic War against Octavian. Antony and Cleopatra's fleet was defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Trapped in Alexandria, both Cleopatra and Antony committed suicide rather than be captured by Octavian.

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    CLEOPATRA

    Cleopatra was born around


    69 BC. Her father Ptolemy


    XII died (in 51 BC) when she
    was 18 years old, he had left
    Cleopatra and her brother.
    Ptolemy XIII as co-regents.
    As was the custom of the
    time, Cleopatra married her
    brother and together they
    ruled Egypt. However,
    Ptolemy soon exiled
    Cleopatra, leaving him in
    sole charge of her.
    Cleopatra was replaced on the
    throne by Julius Caesar, who
    had become her lover (46 BC);
    she and she remarried her
    other brother, Ptolemy XIV,
    whom she used to handle at
    Then the Ptolemaic War broke her whim. Cleopatra attempted
    out (32-30 BC), prompting to use her influence over Caesar
    Augustus to take his fight to reestablish Egyptian
    against Antony to Egypt. The hegemony in the eastern
    final confrontation took place Mediterranean as an ally of
    in the naval battle of Actium Rome; the birth of a son of both
    (31), in which Antony's fleet (Ptolemy XV or Caesarion)
    was easily defeated by the seemed to reinforce that
    Egyptians who abandoned it. possibility.
    Marco Antonio managed to
    flee and take refuge with
    Cleopatra in Alexandria; when
    the troops of Octavio Augusto
    took the city, Antonio
    committed suicide.
    Then the Ptolemaic War
    broke out (32-30 BC),
    prompting Augustus to
    take his fight against
    Antony to Egypt. The
    final confrontation took
    place in the naval battle
    of Actium (31), in which
    Antony's fleet was easily
    defeated by the
    Egyptians who
    abandoned it. Marco
    Antonio managed to flee
    and take refuge with
    Cleopatra in Alexandria;
    when the troops of
    Octavio Augusto took
    the city, Antonio
    committed suicide.
    Cleopatra would continue trying,
    for the third time, to seduce the
    Roman warrior - this time,
    Octavian Augustus - to save his
    life and the throne; but
    Augustus, insensitive to her
    charms, decided to take her to
    Rome as spoils of war. Faced
    with such a prospect, she
    Cleopatra committed suicide of
    her own free will with the
    Egyptian ritual procedure of
    being bitten by an asp. Augustus
    took advantage of the
    circumstance to also assassinate
    his son Caesarion, thus
    extinguishing the Ptolemaic
    dynasty and annexing Egypt to
    the Roman Empire.

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