![]() Caesar, meanwhile, was married to a woman named Calpurnia his fourth wife. At this point, she had just become pregnant with Caesar's child. 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. When Ptolemy XIII died in 47 BC, Cleopatra married her younger brother, Ptolemy XIV, to ensure that her reign was still legitimized. With Caesar’s help, she regained control of Egypt in 47 BCE, becoming co. Caesar’s gens, the Julii, were patriciansi.e., members of Rome’s original aristocracy, which had coalesced in the 4th century bce with a number of leading plebeian (commoner) families to form the nobility that had been the governing class in Rome since then. 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. Cleopatra found the support she needed in Julius Caesar, a married Roman ruler with whom she began a sexual relationship. Cleopatra’s legacy lives on as the heroine of literary figure Shakespeare’s tragedy and one of the most famous historical Egyptian monarchs today through the stories of her beauty, deceit, power, and most of all, her bold affair with Rome’s most famous general, Gaius Julius Caesar. ![]() Aubrey Smith (Enobarbus), Irving Pichel (Apollodorus). 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. Principal Cast: Claudette Colbert (Cleopatra), Warren William (Julius Caesar), Henry Wilcoxon (Marc Antony), Gertrude Michael (Calpurnia), Joseph Schildkraut (King Herod), Ian Keith (Octavian), C. 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. Julius Caesar and Cleopatra are two of the most fascinating and influential figures in ancient history. ![]()
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