The Power of Persuasion

A queen must never dirty her hands with ugly tasks, nor can a king appear in public with blood on his face. Caesar and Antony not only rid her of her most dangerous siblings, Ptolemy XIII and Arsenaway, they decimated all of her enemies in both the government and the military. The two men became her cat's paws. They entered the fire for her, did the ugly but necessary work while shielding her from appearing as the destroyer of her siblings and fellow Egyptians. Both men acquiesced to her desire to rule Egypt not as a Roman colony, but as an independent allied kingdom. And they did all this for her without realizing how she had manipulated them.