Cleopatra and Julius Caesar: Their Life Intertwined After two other wives, Pompeia, whom he divorce because of scandal with other men and Calpurnia, he achieved consulship (McManus, 2001). He had an impressive career and later, he returned home to be an orator. He also joined the military which then earned him with the oak leaves or the civic crown. By the age 18, he already had two wives, both from prominent families, Cossutia and Cornelia, respectively. Their family is not wealthy nor is it prominent when he was born in 100 or 102 BCE. Julius Caesar, on the other hand, is a son to the humble family of Aurelia and to Gaius Julius Caesar in Rome. In 48, BCE, she was thrown out of power, which leads to her ambition to return to power. In the battle of power, of who should rule, she was beaten with the help of the ministers of her younger brother (Grochowski, 2005). She had reforms for Egypt which was solely her doing, rather than consulting her much younger co-ruler/ husband / brother. She is skilled in nine languages and mathematicians (Gupta, 2009).Ĭleopatra was given such responsibility at a young age of 18. She is also of Macedonian decent, which they said, bore her of high intellectual power. Albeit the physical descriptions, it is often said that she is more of a diplomat than anything else.
Descriptions of her statue are also among the highest praises. On top of the beauty, she is often dubbed as having a ‘charming voice’. She was described as ‘a woman of surpassing beauty’ by Cassius Dio (as cited in Grout, 2009). There is much account of how ‘beautiful’ Cleopatra was.
This is in accordance to Egyptian rule that a queen has to always lead with a king. The death of her father has earned her the throne to be the pharaoh however, she had to be married to Ptolemy XIII, her brother. She is the daughter of Ptolemy XII but her mother is of unknown identity, it is supposed that her mother is one of the pharaoh’s concubines or the pharaoh’s sister, Cleopatra VI (Grochowski, 2005). Her relationship with them may have the greatest contribution as to the way every one looks at these men today.Īncient Egypt has celebrated the birth of Cleopatra in the year 69 BCE (Stritof, n.d.). Cleopatra is the embodiment of love and ambition all at the same time. She had the power to be every man’s aspiration. She is a woman who had relationships with two great men, but upheld timeless femininity. However Cleopatra remains as a mother not only to her own but to her people as well. She has always been depicted in different light, in so many media. She has surpassed the fame of any Egyptian pharaoh. There are actually several pharaohs who have adapted the name, but no one came close to Cleopatra VII. Neither has the world known another Cleopatra. Cleopatra has never appeared on the list of most popular names for babies.
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