![]() ![]() ![]() Famous long before she was notorious, she has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men-Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, with both of whom she had children. She dispensed with an ambitious sister as well incest and assassination were family specialties. She was married twice, each time to a brother: she waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second. ![]() Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh / Stacy Schiff. Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.
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