, and her mother was probably Auletes's sister, Cleopatra V Tryphaena. The name Cleopatra is Greek for "father's glory".

Today she is probably the most famous of all of ancient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply Cleopatra, all of her similarly-named predecessors having been largely forgotten. Cleopatra was never in fact the sole ruler of Egypt; she only co-ruled with her father, brother, brother-husband, and son. However, in all these cases, her co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.

Cleopatra is distinguishable as the last of three women ever to use the title Pharaoh. Her predecessors were Nitocris of the Sixth Dynasty and Hapshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Cleopatra in Naples National Museum (did Caesar love this young girl ?)

History

Cleopatra VII was Greek and born in Egypt, took the throne alone at the death of her father from IMDB

Paintings of Cleopatra

  • Head of Cleopatra (1533/34), Michelangelo
  • Cleopatra , G. Francesco Guerrieri (1589 - 1657)
  • , 1911 , Gyula Benczúr (1844–1920) , Déri Múzeum, Debrecen

Music

Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare, the Canadian-Armenian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian as Cleopatra

Fun

  • Asterix and Cleopatra

Venus of Esquilin (

  • Anthony and Cleopatra
  • Cleopatra on the Web (http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/cleopatra/) - Some 470 resources, including ancient and modern pictures.
  • Cleopatra VII Philopator ancient sources (http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/cleopatra_vii.htm)
  • Cleopatra VII (VI) at LacusCurtius (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/13*.html) — (Chapter XIII of E. R. Bevan's House of Ptolemy, 1923)
  • Cleopatra (http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR10992.HTM) - a Victorian children's book by Jacob Abbott, 1852, Project Gutenberg edition.
  • THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. A.D.1342-1400) , The Legend of Cleopatra

    • Cleopatra from Amazon

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