The story of the last Cleopatra to rule Egypt is one that everyone believes they know yet it is full of ambiguities. History is written by the victor not the vanquished so our perception is based on lost manuscripts of those living at the time written on the instructions of the Emperor Caesar Augustus ne Octavian. We have been facinated, wrongly, for two thousand years by how a great general made a fool of himself for the love of a woman. The amount of time Cleopatra spent with either Caesar or Antony was minimal, yet there is no record of her taking any other lovers, inconceivable for the most desirable and passionate woman of all time. Why did the Romans passonately fear and hate the Egyptian monarch? Why did Julius Caesar name Octavian his successor instead of his son by Cleopatra and what was his relationship with this sickly little man. Caesar would have probably known about the assassination plot yet he apears to have deliberately walked into the trap. What went so...

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