When she had perfected her schemes she entered the city (for she had been living outside of it), and by night without Ptolemy's knowledge went into the palace.Ĭaesar, upon seeing her and hearing her speak a few words was forthwith so completely captivated that he at once, before dawn, sent for Ptolemy and tried to reconcile them, thus acting as advocate for the very woman whose judge he had previously assumed to be. She asked therefore for admission to his presence, and on obtaining permission adorned and beautified herself so as to appear before him in the most majestic and at the same time pity-inspiring guise. The relationship of Cleopatra and Caesar is also a symbol of the special link in ancient times uniting two ancient powerful nations, Egypt and Rome. Her life inspired a Shakespeare play and several movies. For she was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking she also possessed a most charming voice and a knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to everyone.īeing brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate every one, even a love-sated man already past his prime, she thought that it would be in keeping with her rôle to meet Caesar, and she reposed in her beauty all her claims to the throne. Julius Caesar enabled Cleopatra's accession to the throne of Egypt, through his actions, but also through his death. Cleopatra, who reigned as queen of Egypt during the 1st century B.C., is one of the most famous female rulers in history. With Caesar’s help, she regained control of Egypt in 47 BCE, becoming co. Grme's painting is one of the earliest modern depictions of Cleopatra emerging from a carpet in the presence of Julius Caesar, a minor historical inaccuracy that arose out of the translation of a scene from Plutarch 's Life of Caesar and the semantic change of the word 'carpet' over time. In 1866, her meeting with Caesar was depicted in a painting (pictured above), aptly titled Caesar and Cleopatra, by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Cleopatra, it seems, had at first urged with Caesar her claim against her brother by means of agents, but as soon as she discovered his disposition (which was very susceptible, to such an extent that he had his intrigues with ever so many other women - with all, doubtless, who chanced to come in his way) she sent word to him that she was being betrayed by her friends and asked that she be allowed to plead her case in person. Cleopatra found the support she needed in Julius Caesar, a married Roman ruler with whom she began a sexual relationship.
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