Uncovering Cleopatra

The name title Who was Cleopatra? from the Smithsonian magazine describes who the infamous cig arette of the Nile was and what her life was like nigh 49 B.C. The details that the member mainly clarifies on are the struggles with her teenage brother everywhere the toilette of Egypt and her scheme to mulct into the palace to see Julius Caesar. The article also exemplifies what kind of pharaoh she was during her time. approximately 49 B.C. when Cleopatra was just in her early twenties, she fled to Syria to return to a mercenary army in order set up camp right distant of the capital. This was because the fight over the fanny of Egypt with her brother was not overtaking as vigorous as she had endned. Cleopatra wanted nothing more(prenominal) than to rule. Her husband, Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, had driven his babe from the palace at Alexandria after Cleopatra seek to make herself the sole sovereign.\nIn the summer of 48 B.C. the roman letters General Julius Caesar arrived at Alexandria. Caesar was bony to the Egyptian family feud. Egypt had been a respectful ally to capital of Italy because of the Nile River vale and the stability it brought to the country, as well as the agricultural wealth. These affirmatory attributes made the Nile River Valley greatly involved in Romes economic interest. Caesar began sustainment at Alexandras proud palace in hopes of mediating the struggle between the siblings, but it was attempted since Ptolemy XIIIs forces banned the return of the kings sister to Alexandria. Clever Cleopatra realized that Caesars plan for a diplomatic preventative could help her in reclaiming her throne and she fashioned a devious scheme to sneak herself into the palace. By ingeniously persuading her servant Apollodoros to range her up in carpeting (or a sack employ for storing bed sheets according to almost sources) she was smuggled into the palace. This gesture of emerging from the carpet, dressed in her beat out finery, and beggi ng Caesar for his help was overflowing to win over the ...