In 48 BC, an exiled woman sneaked into a small fishing boat at night.
She was wrapped in a blanket by servants and given to Caesar the Roman Emperor, who immediately fell under her pomegranate skirt.
Since then, she has relied on the ancient Roman Empire and single-handedly preserved the peace of Egypt in the last few decades, known as the "protector of Egypt".
This woman's name was Cleopatra, the last queen of ancient Egypt.
In order to achieve her political ambitions, she conquered caesar and Antony, two Roman commanders, with a unique posture, but was finally crushed by Octavian.
She spent her life circling between the three most important figures in ancient Rome, and died at the age of only 37, but she wrote a rich stroke in the history of ancient Egypt.
Cleopatra was born in 69 BC, her father was the ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
Prior to that, her ancestors had ruled for more than 200 years. And her father was addicted to music all day, and Egypt's national power was declining, and it had reached the end of the storm.
At that time, in order to ensure the purity of the bloodline, intermarriage was practiced within the royal family.
According to custom, Cleopatra married his 10-year-old brother at the age of 17 and jointly held the throne.
In 48 BC, her brother, who was also her husband, resolved to get rid of her in order to seize power.
She escaped under the cover of servants and went into exile in a small town in Egypt.
On the other side, Julius Caesar, the consul of the Roman Empire, is pursuing his political enemy Pompey to the capital of Egypt.
In order to see Caesar before her husband, she sneaked into Caesar's station and wrapped herself in a blanket and gave it to him, which began with the appearance of the scene.
Sure enough, Julius Caesar fell in love with her at first sight and helped her defeat her husband and sit on the throne of the pharaohs of Egypt.
Caesar declared that she was in power with her husband, and her husband dared to be angry about it.
After that, she lived with Caesar and had a son.
Three years later, the Queen was invited to visit Rome.
By this time, Julius Caesar had already served in the Roman Republic for 10 years.
There, she enjoyed an honor she had never experienced in her life: Cleopatra sat on a huge model of a sphinx, with 8,000 attendants dragging her through the Arc de Triomphe.
Caesar also built a temple of Venus dedicated to his ancestors in Rome and erected a golden statue of Cleopatra next to the goddess.
The Queen of Egypt, who knew that she was about to become the First Lady of Rome, had expected that on March 15, 44 BC, Caesar would be stabbed to death at a meeting of the Senate.
She could only leave and return to her country.
When the queen returned to Egypt, she poisoned her puppet husband and prepared to put her and Caesar's son on the throne.
However, her sister Ashino was not dead hearted, intending to compete for the throne, and set up another portal to confront her.
After Caesar's death, the political situation in Rome was turbulent, and Caesar's adopted son Octavian, his subordinate Antony, and Li Bida were finally established on three feet.
Antony sent a message to the queen hoping to obtain the wealth of Egypt to support the army, which gave the clever queen another good opportunity.
She dressed herself up in a dazzling way and went on a big golden boat to meet Anthony, and the two hit it off.
Antony assisted the queen in eliminating her sister, and she succeeded in keeping the throne and the kingdom of Egypt, as well as helping Antony to dominate Rome.
Originally, the two just used each other, but they both fell into a fiery love affair.
The two lived together for 12 years and had 3 children together.
During this period, Antony had to marry Octavian's sister, and Rome formed a relatively stable situation.
However, because Ofton was obsessed with the queen, he wanted to abandon his wife, give her the Roman conquests, ascend the throne with her when the expedition was victorious, and even make a will to distribute the land to her and her children, and bury himself in Egypt.
For a time, the queen was in the limelight and was known as the "Queen of Kings", and the Romans hated her to the bone, believing that she posed the greatest threat to Rome.
Octavian took advantage of the grievances and broke with Antony after designing to get rid of Li Bida, one of the three giants.
In 31 BC, Antony and Octavian's army fought.
Originally, the two were not inferior in strength and had their own advantages, but they did not expect that the Queen of Egypt, who had always been on The side of Antony, suddenly withdrew from the battlefield and fled without a fight.
Anthony chased after him, unable to command the soldiers, and the battle was defeated.
In 30 BC, Octavian led an army to attack Egypt, and the queen opened the city gates to greet him.
The defeat of the war and the betrayal of the queen discouraged Antony, and finally he committed suicide.
In fact, the queen's escape is not difficult to understand, she sees the situation clearly, and has no confidence in Antony's victory, so she will show kindness to Octavian in order to save her country.
Sure enough, after Octavian captured Egypt and captured the queen, she did everything in her power to trick and confuse Octavian, hoping that he would let her children live.
However, Octavian was unmoved and planned to take her back to Rome and parade the streets during the triumphal ceremony.
In ashes, the queen died with a poisonous snake.
Octavian finally fulfilled her last wish and buried her and Antony together, but she and Caesar's son, as well as her son with Antony, were executed.
At this point, the last dynasty of Egypt came to an end.
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Cleopatra died in this way, and there are many opinions about the cause of her death.
Some people say that the fact that she died of a poisonous snake is unreasonable, and the real suspect is Octavian.
In fact, her whole life has been a mystery.
Even her appearance has always had two very different statements.
Shakespeare described her as a "sexy woman of the world", while later scholars have speculated that she was short, fat, and not outstanding, based on some sculptures and portraits of the time.
In 2008, British scientists spent more than a year restoring her 3D avatar, confirming that she was a beautiful young, mixed-race woman.
For more than two thousand years after her death, her story has been talked about and adapted to the screen again and again, from Taylor to Roland, who has played her image.
Perhaps there is a sentence that can be used as a portrayal of her life:
Men conquer the world, and intelligent women conquer men and win the whole world.