Untold Stories About Cleopatra

Does the phrases "harlot," "selfishness," "seductress," and "mistress" all spring to mind when you hear the name Cleopatra?I'm sure it does.

What about her intelligence? Slightly or maybe nothing at all. But did you know she was believed to be an intelligent woman?

Cleopatra (also known as Cleopatra VII), was known as extremely intelligent and proficient in using feminine techniques to achieve her objectives. She was one of the most famous queens of antiquity, renowned for her seductive skills, formidable army, and scandalous liaisons with powerful individuals.

Even though she might have died without ensuring her country's freedom, she actually made every attempt to do so but didn't succeed. If Caesar hadn't died, she could have fulfilled all of her goals for both herself and her people.

First off, it is impossible to defend her intelligence if her schooling is not mentioned. It was thought that Cleopatra was the only pharaoh from her Greek dynasty to bother to learn Egyptian. She was also proficient in a number of other languages, allowing her to negotiate alliances and treaties without sending a representative and running the danger of receiving the wrong information. Despite the fact that knowing this clearly helps one achieve such authority, most people who wish to govern the world rarely bother to do so. She researched the languages of the Troglodytes, the Parthians, the Medes, the Ethiopians, the Syrians, and the Syrians.

Cleopatra was without a doubt one of Egypt's best pharaohs. She possessed all the qualities of a great world conqueror and general. She was smart, proactive, and familiar with her adversaries. Plutarch, among other historians, lauded Cleopatra for her intelligence. She was well-versed in debate, philosophy, and mathematics. She spoke Koine Greek as her native tongue, but throughout her reign she also became fluent in at least nine other languages, including Arabic and Hebrew. She had a talent for languages as well. She was the only Pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty who could interact with her soldiers without using a translator because she spoke Egyptian.

It's unfortunate that her schooling is not commonly acknowledged because if it were, she would be better renowned for her intelligence than her misdeeds.

According to reports, her father gave her access to the top experts in history, medicine, and other subjects that would help her become a great queen.

Although it's claimed that Cleopatra picked up her seduction, it was believed by most people that she taught herself. She may not have done it in the most ethical manner, but she was cunning in how she used her femininity to get what she wanted.

She was immensely proud of her library, thus it devastated her when it was partially burned alongside her brother during the Civil War.

Some details about her personal and professional lives you might wanna know are listed below.

1. Cleopatra VII, who was born in 70–69 BC, was the child of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra V Tryphaena.

2. She was of an incentious family. Members of the Ptolemaic dynasty frequently married into other family members in order to preserve the virginity of their bloodline. More than a dozen of Cleopatra's ancestors were married to cousins or siblings, suggesting that her parents were likely brothers and sisters. Following this custom, Cleopatra eventually wed both of her young brothers, who served at various times during her rule as both her ceremonial companion and co-regent.

3. Cleopatra married Ptolemy XIII, her 10-year-old brother and the co-ruler who had succeeded his father as Pharaoh, when she was 18 years old. Soon after assuming power, Ptolemy tried to kill his sister, which caused Cleopatra to flee to Syria.

4. Cleopatra recognized the importance of education in ensuring the strength of her people and her nation. The one fact that is left out of history texts is the fact that she enlisted the best academics to advance knowledge. Her subjects rebuilt her library, making it the biggest in the world, as at that time. If she had beat Octavian, there would have been a good chance that Egypt would be one of the world's top educational centers.

5. Cleopatra was not an Egyptian. Despite being of Macedonian Greek descent and having been born in Egypt, Cleopatra was a descendant of Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy I Soter. Ptolemy assumed control of Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 BC and started a nearly three-century-long dynasty of Greek-speaking kings.

6. Power plays and assassination plots were commonplace in the Ptolemaic practice of family marriage, and Cleopatra and her siblings were no exception. As a result of her involvement, three of her siblings passed away. Her first sibling-husband, Ptolemy XIII, exiled her from Egypt after she sought to seize sole control of the throne, and the two later got into a civil war. Cleopatra had the upper hand by working with Julius Caesar, and after Ptolemy lost the fight, he perished in the Nile River. Despite the fact that it is believed she killed him in an effort to share power with her son, Cleopatra remarried to her younger brother Ptolemy XIV after the war. Since she considered her sister a potential heir to the throne, she also organized Arsinoe's execution in 41 BC.

7. Cleopatra's intelligence may have been more highly regarded than her beauty as one of her greatest assets, despite the propaganda that painted her as a debauched temptress who used her sexual allure as a political weapon. She had received training in astronomy, oratory, philosophy, mathematics, and up to a dozen other languages. There is evidence that Cleopatra wasn't as physically gorgeous as widely believed. She may have portrayed herself as male on purpose to demonstrate her authority, according to some historians, but coins containing her portrait depict her with manly features and a large figure.