The Rise of Cleopatra
The Ancients
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Cleopatra's Return to Rome
Cleopatra goes over to Rome to meet Caesar and she seems to stay there right up to the point where Caesar is assassinated so quite a lengthy stay. She's not particularly popular with the people of Rome I don't know whether that would have bothered her or not but we have some classical orthodontary writing about how unpopular she was. One very striking act of Caesar's was to have a statue of Cleopatra commissioned in the form of the Romans goddess Venus within the temple of Venus genetics which is in the forum in Rome. He's putting Cleopatra quite literally on a pedestal and saying look you know this is somebody that you've got to support you got to get behind
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