Cleopatra

Details

Instance of

human

Born

13 January 69 BCE

Died

12 August 30 BCE

Part of

Antony and Cleopatra, Three Beauties of the World

Conflict

Battle of Actium

Place of birth

Alexandria

Place of death

Alexandria

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Cleopatra

Father

Ptolemy XII Auletes

Mother

Cleopatra V of Egypt

Spouse

Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Ptolemy XIV of Egypt, Mark Antony

Child

Caesarion, Cleopatra Selene II, Alexander Helios, Ptolemy Philadelphus

Sibling

Cleopatra Tryphaena, Berenice IV of Egypt, Arsinoe IV of Egypt, Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator, Ptolemy XIV of Egypt

Present in work

Civilization VI, The Divine Comedy

Said to be the same as

Cleopatra VI of Egypt

Occupation

sovereign, monarch

Position held

pharaoh

Citizenship

Ptolemaic Kingdom

Native language

Koine Greek

cause of death

poisoning

depicted by

Cleopatra bitten by the Asp, The Death of Cleopatra, Cleopatra, Cleopatra, Head-portrait of Cleopatra VII, Head of Isis, Cleopatra showing Octavius the bust of Julius Caesar, Crouching Aphrodite as Cleopatra

described by source

Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Dictionary of African Biography, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Natural History, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

ethnic group

Greeks in Egypt

family

Ptolemaic dynasty

languages spoken, written or signed

Koine Greek, Egyptian, Aramaic, Meroitic, Latin, Syriac, Old Arabic, Median, Parthian

manner of death

suicide

name in native language

Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ

noble title

pharaoh

participant in

banquet of Antony and Cleopatra

patient of

Olympus

place of burial

Alexandria, Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra

significant place

Ancient Egypt

time period

Greco-Roman Egypt, Hellenistic period, Ptolemaic dynasty, history of Ptolemaic Egypt

topic's main category

Category:Cleopatra

unmarried partner

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Julius Caesar

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