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Queen of Egypt
Cleopatra Cleopatra was queen of egypt from Egypt
“I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.”— Cleopatra Cleopatra
This line comes from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Act V. Cleopatra speaks it before her death. Behind these words stands a woman who held Egyptian independence for twenty-one years, spoke nine languages, and outmaneuvered Roman commanders three times over. She was not the Hollywood beauty. She was a politician, an economist, and the only Ptolemaic pharaoh who bothered to learn Egyptian.
The Story of Cleopatra
Actium
In 31 BC, Octavian declared war on Cleopatra. On September 2, the combined fleet of Antony and Cleopatra met Octavian's fleet at Cape Actium in Greece. The battle was a disaster. Cleopatra withdrew her sixty ships. Antony chased after her. The rest of the fleet surrendered. A year later, on August 1, 30 BC, Octavian entered Alexandria. Antony killed himself by falling on his sword. On August 12, Cleopatra followed. She was thirty-nine. According to legend, she died from a snakebite. Her death ended the Ptolemaic dynasty and three thousand years of Egyptian independence. Egypt became a Roman province.
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