His family ruled Egypt right up to Roman times. Ptolemy was one of his generals, and he became ruler of Egypt. His empire stretched around the shores of the Mediterranean sea. 300 years before she was born, Alexander the Great from Macedonia in Northern Greece had conquered a large part of the known world. And as for her beauty impressions on her coins show a rather hook-nosed face – and the historian Plutarch says that her irresistible charm lay more in her wit and conversation than her looks.įirst let me tell you a bit about her family.
The ancient historians say that she was smuggled in to see Julius Caesar, but they talk about a sack, rather than a beautiful carpet. The second fact about Cleopatra rolled up in the carpet, is not so far from the truth. She was a member of the Ptolemy family who had ruled Egypt since the time of the Greek general, Alexander the Great. In fact, Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian, she was Greek. I bet even your mum and dad could have told you those facts! But actually, they would definitely have been wrong about the first one. She was smuggled in to see Julius Caesar rolled up in a carpet. Her life was exciting and brilliant – but be warned, she met a tragic end.īut first, here’s three facts which you might have heard about Cleopatra: Her name was Cleopatra, and she was the last queen of Ancient Egypt. The person in this case is one of the wealthiest and most glamorous women who ever lived. A biography, as you probably know, is the story of a person’s life. Hello, this is Natasha, and I am here with a story that is actually a piece of history.
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