Cleopatra+-+Erdei+Brigitta+Eveleyn




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 * **The Ptolemaic inheritance: 51 BC** ||
 * The king of Egypt, Ptolemy XII, dies in 51 BC. He leaves the kingdom to his ten-year-old son, Ptolemy XIII. But he decrees that the boy shall rule jointly with his older sister, Cleopatra. He must also marry her, in the tradition of royal incest which has become a feature of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

The seventeen-year-old Cleopatra soon proves herself one of the most ambitious and flamboyant figures in this period of Mediterranean history. But her close personal involvement in Roman politics will eventually lose Egypt its independence. ||