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Episode CCV - Cleopatra Selene

Emperors of Rome

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Is Cleopatra Well-Educated?

We know that Cleopatra herself was well educated. She spoke multiple languages, she was apparently the first Ptolemy to learn Egyptian in amongst all the other languages that she spoke. So can we make any assumptions about her upbringing then, whether she would have been trained with the expectations that she is going to be a ruler in some capacity? Given her parentage, I assume there would be at least multiple languages that she would has been fluent in or at least taught those kinds of things.

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