She was dressed as Aphrodite and was fanned by boys dressed like cupids. Plutarch described it as an act of mockery.Īccording to Plutarch, Cleopatra arrived in Tarsus to meet Antony on a perfumed barge with purple sails. When she finally announced she was coming she sent the message: “For the good and happiness of Asia I am coming for a Festive reception.Venus has come to revel with Bacchus” Her arrival in a boat with priceless purple sails was immortalized in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Cleopatra was 29 years old at the time and is said to have purposely delayed setting out to meet him to heighten Antony's expectations. [Source: Stacy Schiff, Smithsonian magazine, December 2010, Adapted from Cleopatra: A Biography, by Stacy Schiff."Ĭleopatra and Marc Antony began their famous love affair in Tarsus in Asia Minor.in 42 B.C., after the death of Caesar when Octavian and Antony were fighting a civil war for control of Rome. Catastrophe reliably cements a reputation, and Cleopatra's end was sudden and sensational. She had a child with a married man, three more with another. For a fleeting moment she held the fate of the Western world in her hands. A goddess as a child, a queen at 18, at the height of her power she controlled virtually the entire eastern Mediterranean coast, the last great kingdom of any Egyptian ruler. She lost her kingdom once regained it nearly lost it again amassed an empire lost it all. Stacy Schiff wrote in her book Cleopatra: A Biography, “Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before the birth of Christ.
But despite these flaws she is one of the world's most famous seductresses. Coin portraits and a bust reportedly made in her lifetime show her with a prominent nose and a large forehead. A Greek Queen of Egypt, she played a major role in the extension of the Roman Empire and was a lover of Julius Caesar, the wife of Marc Antony and a victim of Augustus Caesar, the creator of the Roman Empire. Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) is one of the most famous women of all a time.
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