Cleopatra, a legendary woman in history, she is not only beautiful and moving, but also quite clever political skills, so she can first rely on Julius Caesar to help her husband seize the throne, and later rely on Antony to survive in the chaotic world.
However, fate has always been fairer, after Cleopatra has twice relied on men to stabilize the regime, and gradually become bigger and stronger, the rest of the people have completely understood her political ambitions, when Octavian has the upper hand, the cleopatra's tricks, no longer interested, sad and desperate Cleopatra, finally ended her legendary life in a self-destructive way.
Cleopatra's struggle for the throne with her husband
Cleopatra was originally born in the royal family, received a good education from the royal family from an early age, and has a more comprehensive and objective understanding of the world's cognition and the need for power, and she understands that if she wants to become a superior person, she needs to control the fate of the Egyptian royal family.
Perhaps it was her father who saw her ambition, and at the time of her death, he entrusted the country of Egypt to her and his half-brother to take charge, and later in order to prevent the two brothers from competing for royal power and disagreements, they directly let the two marry and become husband and wife, so that the family did not speak two families, it was more secure.
Unfortunately, in the face of powerful power, family, love, and friendship will become worthless. In the beginning, Cleopatra and her brother (husband) were able to get along well, but over time, both had greater ambitions for royal power and wanted to eliminate each other.
Under the ambition of the two, they each formed their own support team, and secretly fought, after all, Egypt at that time was still somewhat unacceptable to women as kings, so there were more people who supported their husbands, and Cleopatra was gradually at a disadvantage in the struggle.
The matter became more and more serious, and eventually her husband led a large army to launch a coup d'état, cleopatra failed in the coup, although she was spared death, but her husband cruelly drove her to the border area, where cleopatra lived alone and despaired of the future.
In the border areas, in order to survive, she can only rely on her beauty to trade human skins, and she can barely make a living. It was not until later that she heard that Julius Caesar had come to the Alexandria region, which was close to Egypt, to rest his troops, that Cleopatra had a plan.
She sneaked into Julius Caesar's bedchamber on a dark and windy night, and when Julius Caesar saw such a beautiful woman, he naturally did not hold on to it, fell into cleopatra's trap, and fell under cleopatra's pomegranate skirt.
The relationship between the two developed rapidly, Cleopatra also took the opportunity to put forward a proposal to deal with the Egyptian king, Julius Caesar originally had such a plan, and now just helped Cleopatra to get the king of Egypt, Cleopatra's original husband was defeated under the army of Julius Caesar, killed by Cleopatra, Cleopatra officially replaced her husband, becoming the veritable ruler of Egypt.
After Caesar was killed, Cleopatra committed herself to Antony
With the support and help of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra took a firm seat in Egypt, and later after she and Caesar gave birth to a son, they established this child as king, and the mother and daughter could justifiably rule Egypt, but this time lasted for a short time.
Later, Julius Caesar was assassinated and killed by others, and Cleopatra lost her patron in an instant. After the death of Julius Caesar, Antony and Octavian and others fell into war, and everyone wanted to destroy each other, but there was great difficulty, and among the several forces, Antony's forces were the most powerful.
In order to be able to maintain her position in Egypt, Cleopatra repeated the same technique, using the way she used to curry favor with Julius Caesar, Antony was young and vigorous, and in the face of the beautiful and intellectual Cleopatra, there was no resistance, once again allowing Cleopatra's plot to succeed.
With Antony's support, Cleopatra continued to maintain her dominance in Egypt, and no one could shake it. However, there will always be accidents when things happen, Antony was originally the strongest, but gradually weakened on the battlefield, while Octavian overtook Anthony, became the strongest king, and finally destroyed Antony.
With the destruction of Antony, cleopatra's fate was completely different, and in the very beginning she had also thought of continuing to use the previous way to please Octavian and let him continue to support herself, so that she could continue to hold power in Egypt, but Octavian was a person who was very different from Julius Caesar and Antony, and she was not interested in Cleopatra at all.
Seeing that everything has long been hopeless, Cleopatra finally sad, she understands what kind of tragic end she will face next, rather than waiting to be slaughtered by others, it is better to choose the end on her own initiative, after weighing the interests of all aspects, Cleopatra finally chose to cut herself off, ending her legendary life.
Why did Cleopatra decide on her own?
About the reason why Cleopatra finally broke herself, in fact, it is still relatively simple, mainly in three aspects, the first is that she is old and fading at this time, there is no longer the style of the year, the reason why Octavian is not moved by her, in addition to personality reasons, the most important point is because Cleopatra has long been old and fading, for the young and strong Octavian, there is no attraction, of course, he will not be seduced by Cleopatra's actions.
The second reason is that the situation in Egypt is stable, and it has always relied on external forces, such as Julius Caesar and Antony to help Cleopatra maintain stability, once the help of these forces is lost, Egypt will become a mess inside, Cleopatra herself can not control such a situation, so she can only choose to commit suicide to end her life to prevent more trouble.
The third reason is that Octavian will not easily forgive Cleopatra, because Julius Caesar and Cleopatra gave birth to a son, and the existence of this son is also an unstable factor for Octavian, so even if Cleopatra does not break itself, it will eventually be eliminated by Octavian.
Combined with the above three reasons, even if Cleopatra does not want to do this for the rest of her life, but under the comprehensive influence of various pressures, her only way out and the only good ending is self-determination, otherwise the life she faces will be miserable, presumably she herself is also deeply aware.
epilogue
In the political whirlpool, there has never been an eternal victor, always one after another, want to use external forces to maintain their glory and wealth forever, after all, it is still impossible to last, Cleopatra relied on her beauty to control Egypt for about twenty years, has long been a legend, want to rely on the face to maintain strength forever, it is almost impossible, after all, the face is easy to grow old!
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