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Cleopatra Research Paper

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Cleopatra has one of the most dramatic lifestyle, and was leading life to do what was right. Her role as the mighty pharaoh, was very short and incomplete because of her complicated life. Date: 51 B.C. Recently, my father has died. He was a great man who ruled Egypt with all his heart, and now will rest in his glorious tomb. My brother and his advisers are discussing the matter of being king. Since my father died, Ptolemy has become my husband from our custom.
Date: 56 B.C.
I wonder what to do now… I wonder what came to my brother when he was as evil as Set, to push me out of Egypt! I was fighting for the throne, so I demanded to find an army in Syria. Before the battle, the glorious roman, Julius Caesar, came to Egypt. He was told …show more content…

Instead it was his grandnephew, Octavian, who shared the kingdom with Mark Antony and Marcus Lepidus. Later, as the agreement they had began to crumble, when Octavian became a leader of Africa (The position held by Lepidus). Mark Antony had come to a struggle and decided to call me, the official queen of Egypt. I had to answer his prayers and came there on the boat, sailing the Nile River, toward Tarsus where we were to meet up.

As he fell in love with me, we discussed about what we are going to do with the Roman Empire. He promised me protection if I give him some wealth. He was a very handsome man, tall and muscular, with a beautiful face of Hercules. Though he was very charitable and confident, he lacked in intelligence. As he followed me to my home in Alexandria, he was enchanted with my beauty and intellect and impressed with my charming and refined city.

We fell in love during his stay at my luxurious castle. One day, we went fishing. He wasn’t catching anything, so he asked a servant to hook fish onto his rod. As I became suspicious of it, I asked the servant to instead hook a dried and salted fish. Oh the nights we had! He told me that he hunts kingdoms and continents

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