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Jan 31, 2022 · Cleopatra famously had relationships with the Roman generals Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Less, however, is remembered about the four children she had with these men.
- Sarah Mcgrath
May 17, 2023 · Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of an independent Egypt, had four children: Caesarian (with Julius Caesar), twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, and Ptolemy Philadelphia (the latter three... Read Later
- Natalia Klimczak
From a son who was declared a co-ruler of Egypt but was later executed, to a daughter who married a king and became a cultural icon, the lives of Cleopatra's children are a window into a world of power, ambition, and betrayal.
- Cleopatra made an ally of Julius Caesar, who helped to establish her on the throne. She then invited him to join her on a voyage up the Nile, and when she subsequently gave birth to a son, she named the baby Caesarion – ‘little Caesar’.
- Fantasies about Cleopatra’s beauty are just that. Plutarch, the Greek biographer of Mark Antony, claimed it wasn’t so much her looks that were so compelling, but her conversation and her intelligence.
- Cleopatra was living in Rome, as the mistress of Julius Caesar, at the time that he was assassinated. Caesar’s assassination in 44 BC meant Cleopatra herself was in danger, so she left at once.
- Cleopatra was a mother as well as the ruler of Egypt. She had Caesarion, her eldest son, represented on the temple wall at Dendera alongside her, as sharing her rule.
May 19, 2024 · Cleopatra's father and mother both were children of the same father, one by a wife, and another by a concubine. Therefore, her family tree has fewer branches, some of them unknown. You will see the same names crop up frequently, going back six generations.
- Kimberly Powell
Sep 23, 2019 · Cleopatra and Antony had three children, twins – Cleopatra Selene, and Alexander Helios (born 40 BC), and the younger son, Ptolemy Philadelphus (born 36 BC).
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May 22, 2018 · Cleopatra's Daughter. While Antony and Cleopatra have been immortalised in history and in popular culture, their offspring have been all but forgotten. Their daughter, Cleopatra Selene, became an important ruler in her own right. A fragment of a Ptolemaic relief believed to show Queen Cleopatra.
