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Cleopatra Vs Caesar

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Two brothers lay alone, crying and desperate for help. The she-wolf saw the two babies and since had already been a nurturing she-wolf, she fed the two brothers named Romulus and Remus and took them as her own. This was the beginning of a Roman Empire. Without this she-wolf Romulus and Remus wouldn’t have been able to claim Rome and turn it into a powerful city. It all started with these two brothers who were able to build marketplaces, buildings, columns and began a democracy. In which this term of democracy became the most known factor of Rome. People in Rome were called the Romans, and the Romans preferred the way of living in a democracy. A democracy was ruled by the people of Rome whom had a lot to say throughout the empire. To keep things fair, they created a Roman legal system that was within democracy. The Romans elected …show more content…

After coming home from conquering Gaul and Egypt, he is sent to the senate on the day of Ides of March and killed by his old pal, Et Tu Brute and others, where he is stabbed to death. During the month he had as emperor, Cleopatra was now technically the queen of Egypt. Cleopatra dressed as the goddess Isis and cared deeply for her people and led a stable environment in the economy and kept the peace. After Caesar’s death Octavian decides to take Cleopatra and become the new leader. Cleopatra managed to go to Greece to speak to another powerful man named Marc Antony and seduced him into marriage and to defeat Octavian. Cleopatra has a war declared upon her from Octavian and ended up in Alexandria facing Octavian. Antony was desperate to fight Octavian and win the battle of Actium, but failed and receives news that Cleopatra killed herself. This wasn’t true, yet he attempted to kill himself, but didn’t die right away and Cleopatra came back from Alexandria to find her lover close to death. He died, her arms and she took her own life as

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Egypt, over the next passing years, struggled to face issues such as a failing economy to famine (History.com). She was forced to flee to Syria because of her brother’s orders. Following that year, Cleopatra had met Julius Caesar, who defeated Ptolemy XII upon pleading from Cleopatra. She was restored to her throne and gave birth to Caesar’s child in 47 B.C. (Cleopatra).

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“She was naturally a ruler, with a rich, velvety voice, a dominant presence and a tendency to interact with her citizens. Co-reigning with her father, Ptolemy XII, for a limited amount of time before he died was the most effective thing Cleopatra did in her life. From that experience she learned how to build a fleet, control, change, and improve a currency, keep a stable government through a famine, and do more than anyone else to unite the eastern and western mediterranean countries. Along with building a fleet, she knew how to pick her relationships wisely, Caesar and Mark Antony knew that she had the money for their military needs and that they could help secure her time and safety in the throne. Cleopatra knew how to make a profit, she taxed everything from salt, to pastures, to dikes, to oil, and kept the economy strong when she resold products, helping her with Caesar and Antony’s military needs.

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The term, Democracy, stems from the Greek word ‘demokratia’ which means rule by the people and it wasn’t until around 500 BCE in Athens where the first examples of democracy originated. While Athens is widely regarded as the first historical example of a democratic system, some scholars believe that the Roman Empire’s republic system was more democratic than that of the Greek. As I will come to

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In 36 B.C.E., Antony returned to the east to beat back the Parthians (Encyclopedia of World Biography). As a result, his love affair with Cleopatra was rekindled. This time around, their affair was romantically and politically motivated. Mason believes that different scholars have dissenting opinions with the intention of Cleopatra. However, Mason asserts that Cleopatra also yearned to use Antony just like how the latter used her.

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Julius Caesar is the title character of this play, like Antigone, in which he is not present throughout the whole play, yet plays an important role in the outcome of this play. As the spirit of Julius Caesar never dies, leads to the downfall of his assassins, the death of Julius Caesar is avenged and he never truly falls from power, Julius Caesar is the title character of the play. The spirit of Julius Caesar never dies, and his material death is avenged. After Octavius has returned to Rome, he has found out that Julius Caesar has been murdered. Alongside Antony, Octavius desires to reinstate the power of the supporters of Caesar in Rome.

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CleopatraVII was the most powerful woman in the Roman world. Her rod began to reign only after the death of Alexander the great. Alexander the great invaded Egypt and founded his Kingdom and after his death, Ptolemy became king. Despite the fact that Ptolemy was a Macedonian, he became a great king of Egypt. Ptolemy made Alexandria the capital of his Empire and this city became the richest city of that time.

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Cleopatra VII, known as “fatale monstrum” or a fatal omen to the Romans, is one of the most cunning, captivating, and alluring figures in ancient history. She has been repeatedly romanticized in popular culture, such as in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Hollywood’s Cleopatra (1963) starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. However, while most people only know her as the Egyptian queen who was romantically involved with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony; she actually played an important role in the history of Egypt and the Roman Republic. Cleopatra was born in January 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt to Ptolemy XII Auletes (117 BC- 51 BC) and Cleopatra V Tryphaena (95 BC- 57 BC.)

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