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When Julius Caesar loved Cleopatra

2023-07-13 18:16:32Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
When Julius Caesar loved Cleopatra
When Julius Caesar loved Cleopatra

Julius Caesar would meet Cleopatra, the new queen of Egypt at the time when he was covered in glory. She was one of the most attractive women he had ever seen in his life.

Cleopatra had no difficulty in making the Roman her own, although at the time he was in his late 50s and she was only 20 years old. Besides, she was not Egyptian, but Macedonian, although she claimed to be a descendant of the old kings of Egypt.

A Greek dynasty had ruled the kingdom for three centuries, and Cleopatra, the last of the Ptolemies, belonged to this family. She reigned at the same time as her brother, a thirteen-year-old boy, Ptolemy XII. But they often disagreed, plotting against each other.

Caesar first saw Cleopatra at her palace in Alexandria and was deeply moved not only by her beauty but also by her intellectual qualities.

She had a pleasant voice and was full of gentleness and grace, if the chroniclers of the era were to be believed, but this did not prevent her from being more severe at times. She enjoyed conversation and had all the skills of a consummate politician. Like most Greeks, she changed her mood rapidly and it confused you. From quite cheerful that she could be, she quickly turned into authoritarian, taking harsh attitudes. She knew how to be everything, coquettish and beautiful, but also cruel at the same time.

With Caesar's advice, she won the battle against her brother. After Ptolemy's death, they spent months in each other's company. They traveled the Nile on an ornate boat, followed by a dozen ships carrying vagabonds, jugglers and musicians. It had been a long time since Caesar had had such a vacation.

He would have gone undisturbed as far as Ethiopia with the beautiful Cleopatra, but his troops lost patience at Alexandria. On the other hand, urgent work awaited him in the East.

Regrettably, he had to part with the queen after the most painful farewells.

His flight would turn into a defeat for Cleopatra.


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