Cleopatra
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Cleopatra met Caesar when she snuck into Alexandria to meet him in person. She went on the charm offensive and worked on seducing Caesar to get him on her side. In 42 BC, Mark Antony summoned Cleopatra to his headquarters in Tarsus in what is modern day Turkey. This began a relationship that would last for over a decade. Octavian and Mark Antony win the civil war and split the empire between themselves.
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