Ptolemy

Being Queen at a young age and being successful with my beauty, I still had many struggles. I am Cleopatra.My father was Pharaoh Ptolemy XII and my mother unknown. I was a smart person growing up. My name means “Glory of her Father” in Greek and I was my father's favorite child. I learned a lot about how the country was ruled from him. My family had ruled Egypt for 300 years. Even though my family ruled Egypt, we were actually Greek descents. I grew up speaking, reading, and writing Greek.…

books of the world. After Ptolemy XII died in the year 51 BC, he left both Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII as joint monarchs over Egypt. The empire that Cleopatra and her brother inherited was one of great difficulty. Egypt at this point was severely weakened both economically and politically.…

life both practical and theoretical, and Ptolemy helped the Greeks with some progress of the universe around them. Since this was a long period of time ago they didn't have the intelligence advancement as we do now, so with the help of mathematics, science, and astronomy, Ptolemy helped try to explain what the Greeks couldn't. Astronomy became important to the Greeks because Ptolemy taught the Greeks how they can use astronomy to answer their questions. Ptolemy came up with theories about the…

depending on factors like where they came from and what year it was. Two scientists, Galileo Galilei and Claudius Ptolemy, had differences in their theories and the ways that they came to be accepted. I believe that when it comes down to how the public received their ideas, Galileo struggled more than Ptolemy. Based on the observations he could make using the naked eye, Ptolemy believed in a geocentric universe, a universe where the earth is in the center. Galileo believed in a heliocentric…

from the Greece or Black African background. Cleopatra's family has ruled Egypt for more than 100 years. Cleopatra's father was King Ptolemy Xll. When Ptolemy died, He left 18 year old Cleopatra and Ptolemy Xlll to rule. Eventually they married, which was normal back then, Egypt started to struggle a few years after. Soon after the marriage, Cleopatra and Ptolemy argues over the sole ruler of Egypt. Ptolemy's advisors started to go against the queen of Egypt. She fled to Syria and returned with…

Cleopatra joins Caesar in Rome. Her brother/husband Ptolemy XIV accompanies her. Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIV are housed in a villa belonging to Caesar on the outskirts of Rome. Caesar orders that a gold-plated statue of Cleopatra be placed in the temple of Venus Genetrix. Caesar's clan, the Julians, were supposedly descended from Venus. Although Pompey had been defeated and was killed in Egypt the civil war did not end. Pompey's two sons had gained control of Cordoba in Spain and were preparing…

man in all of Rome. After his defeat over Pompey, he had arrived in Alexandria in 48 B.C. and helped restore a power balance between Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII. Cleopatra, however, decided to take things into her own hands by devising the successful murder of Ptolemy XIII. Following the death of Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra and her other brother, Ptolemy XIV, were married and began ruling together. Interestingly, in her marriage, Cleopatra was a partner that was neither dominant nor submissive.…

reign (Ptolemy XII) when she was close to twenty years old (Roller pg. 43). For being a royal woman Cleopatra was very well educated which was a rare thing being that education was not very prominent during that time (Roller pg. 43). It was actually Cleopatra’s fathers who wanted to restore education and make it important again and it was this very ideal that Cleopatra carried on during her reign (Roller pg. 43). Timagenes of Alexandria was a very important scholar during the rule of Ptolemy XII…

Selene meaning the “sun” and the “moon” which denoted much significance for the Greeks and Romans. Around 36 BCE, Antony moved to Egypt for good, destroying his marriage with Octavia. During this time, Antony and Cleopatra produced one more child, Ptolemy Philadelphus. As Cleopatra had gained three heirs with Antony and a committed relationship, her relationship with Antony gained Cleopatra a lot of power over lands. She gained many cities on the coast of Syria, the kingdom of Ituraea, some…

marrying her brother Ptolemy XIII who was 10 years old at the time, she made it clear that she is not sharing power. This enraged him and so he made plans with another sister Arsinoe IV a half-sister. Together they exiled Cleopatra to Alexandra and she lost her power. During the time she was in Alexandra she made a pact with Caesar who placed Cleopatra and her other brother Ptolemy XIV as co-rulers of Egypt. The brother drowned crossing the Nile when he was chased by Caesar. Ptolemy XIV ruled…