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Royal Glow

51.5 cm / 20 1/4 inches of assorted rosy red and gold glass beads in a braided, triple strand rope

Sterling silver clasp - one of a kind necklace

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Bio   Cleopatra was the last independent ruler of ancient Egypt.  She was the surviving sibling of a voracious brood; executing / assassinating her sister and brothers to secure the throne of the Ptolemies, the Macedonian dynasty founded in Egypt by one of Alexander the Great's generals. 

Even though the family was Greek and ruled mainly in Alexandria, they took on the customs of Egypt. Cleopatra's father married both her mother and her half sister.  Maybe.  The records on the women in her family are a little confusing.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

She was a good mother to Julius Caesar's son, Caesarion or Ptolemy Caesar, and to the three children she had with Marcus Antonius. 

Julius Caesar married Cleopatra under Egyptian law, but he already had a wife in Rome, and Cleo wasn't a Roman citizen so the marriage was not legal in Rome.

He never quite acknowledged their son who was killed by order of Caesar's nephew Octavian (later Augustus Caesar - husband of Livia Augusta). 

Octavian didn't want any cousins getting in the way of his own control of Rome.

The surviving children were raised by Antonius' Roman wife, Octavia, who happened to be Octavian's sister!

Cleopatra ruled Egypt well for the most part, but like so many of her contemporaries, she couldn't hold her country against the Roman need for land, slaves and grain. 

In allying herself with Marcus Antonius, she backed the wrong wanna be successor to Julius Caesar.  After a military defeat, Marcus Antonius fell on his sword.  Cleopatra heard the news and also committed suicide.  Or not.  The Discovery Channel said she might have been poisoned on orders from Octavian, who was soon to become known as Augustus.  Nancy

 

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Cleopatra's Needle - London

Cleopatra's Needle in London was erected for Thutmose III - Cary Kamp took this photo along the Thames Embankment on a rainy March evening


 

Tom Tierney paper dolls for the collector in all of us.

 

 

 

I've included a link for William Shakespeare's Roman plays as well as several for enjoyable works of historical fiction about Cleopatra. 

 

 

The October Horse is not the first book in Colleen McCullough's highly readable series about the men (Sulla, Marius, Julius Caesar) who ruled Rome in the last days of the Republic.  You'll enjoy them all. 

 

 

Kleopatra (series) and The Memoirs of Cleopatra are both good reads as is a new series about Caesar that begins with Emperor The Gates of Rome.  It reads very sweetly with brutal bits.

 

 

 

 

Judith Tarr always gives a good read.  Check out Throne of Isis, too.

 

 

All beautiful actresses seem to want to play Cleopatra.  Of these, the film performances of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh and Claudette Colbert are the most famous.  Nancy

1963 - Elizabeth Taylor

 

1945 - Vivien Leigh

 

1934 - Claudette Colbert

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