![]() At the same time, Cleopatra knew better than to provoke the upper class with a harsh punishment upon a so-far ineffectual plotter. She awoke in the pre-dawn gloom, screaming.īut with the unanimous popularity of the Pharaoh and the rock-solid stability of her reign, he could find no friends to even entertain the idea. In truth, Caesar was fighting a small bout of seasickness, and the young Cleopatra had gone to bed hours earlier to avoid being seen as a pining teenager. or so hundreds of paintings would have you believe. As he sailed under the Pharos Lighthouse that night, the general and the queen shared a last longing look over the wine-dark seas, perhaps aware they would never see each other again. True, Great Pompey was dead, but his sons still lived, commanding the faction loyal to the Senate and devoted to continuing the struggle in their father's nameĪfter six weeks in sunny Egypt, Caesar was convinced by omens and advisers to set sail on the last day of February to return to war with the month and blessing of Mars. No less retold is the affair between Caesar and Cleopatra, the torrid six weeks in Alexandria where the stoic general uncharacteristically frolicked while there was still a war to be fought. ![]() ![]() The beheading of Great Pompey, the accidental burning of the Great Library, Ptolemy XIII drowning as he fled in disgrace, the exiled Queen smuggled into Caesar's chambers in a carpet the images have been told and retold through the centuries. The circumstances of Cleopatra VII's rise to sole power are well-known.
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