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Cleopatra
You're Dead to Me
Cleopatra and the Death of Julius Caesar
Ptolemy the 14th, Brosband, her kid brother, his husband, he's dead too. So Cleopatra has to do a runner from Rome because her boyfriend's just been murdered. She runs back to Egypt and within a couple of months Ptolemy 15th is on the throne. A historian says that Cleopatra poisoned her husband but this really is a very familiar accusation. But Cleopatra did make her son Cesarion, a co-ruler at this point. This is also about her own protection because despite everything she's done,. it is very difficult for a woman to rule alone in antiquity.
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