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18 Cards in this Set
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Cleopatra born
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~Cleopatra's elder sister, Berenice, Seizes the throne from their father. ~Marc Antony leads a Roman army against Berenice (and meets cleopatra for the first time)
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Cleopatra, at 17, forced to marry her brother, Ptolemy (age 10)
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**48
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~Cleopatra flees to Syria, raises an army
~Battle of Pharsalus: Julius caesar goes to Alexandria, egypt (to collect the dead Ptolemy's debts)is presented with Pompey's head, meets and falls in love with Cleopatra (rolled in a carpet) |
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Birth of Caesarion
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~Julius Caesar assasinated
~Cleopatra returns to Egypt |
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**42
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~Mark Antony and Cleopatra meet in Tarsus (in modern day Turkey)-> love affair
~Cleopatra bears him twins |
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**40
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~Treaty of Brundisium
~Antony marries Octavia |
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Antony abandons Octavia and hooks up with Cleopatra
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**36
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~Cleopatra helps Antony with money and siege equipment in Parthia
~In Alexandria, birth of 3rd child ~Agrippa defeats Sextus pompeius ~Horace's first book of satires published |
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~Antony divorces Octavia
~Maecenas gives horace the Sabine farm ~"Donation of Alexandria" at their official wedding. Antony gives cleopatra ("queen of queens") and children (caesarion "king of kings") most of the privinces of the Eastern empire |
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Rome declares war on cleopatra
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~Battle of Actium-> Antony overconfident in his abilities and Cleopatra's resources -> defeated by Octavians general Agrippa.
->Cleopatra fled with her fleet (and Antony's war chest) back to Egypt, Antony followed |
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~Cleopatra imprisons herself in Mausoleum of the temple of isis.
~Antony thinks she has died and stabs himself in the stomach ~He is hoisted into the tower and dies in her arms Cleopatra commits suicide ~Horace's epodes published |
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Cleopatra: according to the Greek biographer, Plutarch
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a)scholar: spoke 7 languages, fluent in Greek and latin
b) mother: 4 children c)ambitious leader of her people |
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Character of Cleopatra: according to the Romans
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a)conniving harlot: rolled herself in a carpet
b)17th C French writer Blaise Pascal: "if Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole history of the world would have been different |
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Character of Mark Antony
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a) besotted with Cleopatra? Wanted her for money/her empire?
b) reputation for drunkenness |
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Political mistakes of Mark Antony
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a) divorcing Octavian
b) Claiming Caesarion heir c) overconfidence in Actium |