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LUDWIG, EMIL; MIALL, BERNARD (TRANSLATOR) Cleopatra: The Story of a Queen
Garden City Publishing Co. Inc. 1939. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Jacket edges worn with two 1" chips along spine base, pages slightly toned. Binding tight. 342 pages. "Cleopatra VII Philopator (January 69 BC – 30 BC) was a Hellenistic ruler of Egypt, originally sharing power with her father Ptolemy XII and later with her brothers/husbands Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV; eventually gaining sole rule of Egypt. As Pharaoh, she consummated a liaison with Gaius Julius Caesar that solidified her grip on the throne. She bore a son for Caesar (Ptolemy Caesar who was nicknamed Caesarion). After Caesar's assassination, she aligned with Mark Antony, with whom she produced a set of twins and a son. Cleopatra had four children in all, her already mentioned first child, Julius Caesar, and three by Mark Antony (the twins, Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios, and a son Ptolemy Philadelphus). Her successive unions with her brothers produced no children. Her reign marks the end of the Hellenistic Era and the beginning of the Roman Era in the eastern Mediterranean. She was the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Her son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, co-ruled in name with his mother only a very few years before Octavian, later on renamed Caesar Augustus, had him executed, most probably by strangulation, which in Antiquity was the execution method reserved for infants and pre-pubescents, thus adding humiliation to his execution." -- Wikipedia.
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