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Mrs. Shelton
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8 Grade Language Arts
29 October 2009
Cleopatra- The Last Ptolemaic Ruler of Egypt
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Although Cleopatra was surrounded by powerful male rulers, none
of them are as infamous as Cleopatra (“Cleopatra”). Born into the
Ptolemaic line of a dynasty rapidly losing its political power, she was
one of the last survivors from a set of Greco-Macedonian dynasties that
sprung up around the eastern Mediterranean (“Cleopatra, VII”).
Cleopatra adopted some of the customs of the conquered
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Egyptians, such as brother-sister marriage and identification of rulers with
gods; she also isolated herself from the peasant society surrounding her
empire (Roberts 229). According to historian Jon Roberts, “Cleopatra
understood the importance of communication, public image, the
movement of wealth and troops” (199).
According to the article “Cleopatra,” she cast her fate with Mark
Antony, who was consolidating his power on the Roman throne.
Cleopatra seduced and entranced him; thus, he married her. Because he
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was losing power, Antony killed himself. Not long after Antony’s suicide,
Cleopatra took her own life (“Cleopatra, VII”).
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Many researchers have tried to determine if, in fact, Cleopatra
actually committed suicide or if she was the victim of a pre-meditated
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murder (Roberts 291). According to Roberts, some experts speculate that
Cleopatra died of arsenic poisoning while other contend that she
committed suicide via the venom of a cobra (224). Whatever theory one
chooses to believe, Cleopatra is truly one of history’s most notorious
women, “using her beauty and charm to conquer powerful political
figures” (Queen Cleopatra 134).
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Works Cited
“Cleopatra.” World Eras, Vol. 3: Roman Republic and Empire. Gale Group,
Database w/no
author
2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Web. Farmington
Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. <http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC>.
“Cleopatra, VII.” Egyptian Gazette. Egyptian Historical Society. 2009. Web.
Internet w/no
author
30 Sept. 2009. < http://www.historical.org/pubs/gazette/>.
Book w/no author
Queen Cleopatra. Chicago: Chicago Press, 2004. Print.
Roberts, Jon. Egyptian History. New York: Townsend Press, 2007. Print.
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