This war lasted several months, during which Arsinoe managed to reach the rebel camp, where she was proclaimed queen of Egypt. Thus, Aquilas (a general of Ptolomeo XIII) marched to the city with 20,000 soldiers of infantry and 2000 horsemen and completely surrounded the city.ĭuring the course of the siege there was the fire of the port of Alexandria by order of Julius Caesar, where they were destroyed 72 Egyptian boats and 50 Roman triremes, to prevent them from falling into enemy hands.
JULIUS CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA SON SERIES
The problem was that after this distribution, none of the brothers was satisfied, so Arsinoe and Ptolemy XIII joined in rebellion against Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, and in that way although imprisoned by Rome, they were making a series of palace intrigues to put to the people of Alexandria against the lovers. In this way the Roman general appointed Ptolemy XIII as king of the island of Crete, Ptolemy XIV and Arsinoe IV the island of Cyprus, leaving Cleopatra as queen of Egypt. The Egyptian civil warĪfter the first contact in his room, Julius Caesar brought together all the brothers of queen Cleopatra and the same queen to end the problem of Egypt, which although being a separate kingdom, Rome had been designated by Ptolemy XII as legal guardian of the kingdom.
Little else we know what was spoken in that room, but for the facts that we will continue narrating now in this summary about the history of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, had to be also political issues, because from that moment they would become two inseparable. In theory it seems that Cleopatra was looking for allying with Rome to return to sit on the throne of Egypt that her brother had snatched. When opening it in his privacy, according to the story, the Roman general found Cleopatra practically naked, and ended up spending all night with her.
She, not trusting the aspirations of her brother’s agents, rolled herself up in a rug that was delivered as a gift in Caesar’s palace. We do not know exactly how the first contact between the two dignitaries took place.Īccording to the history of Rome (and some of the remaining writings of Julius Caesar) it seems that Cleopatra would meet him around the year 48 BC at which time the Roman general had ordered Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy to be reunited to put an end to the hostilities. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) Julius Caesar and Cleopatra: How they met A coin with the head of Cleopatra, Egypt.
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