Taylor starred in Cleopatra
After arriving in Rome, Cleobarat launched a series of diplomatic activities as queen of Egypt, and her salon was arguably the most attractive place in Rome and the whole world.
Egypt's wealth and gold also played a role. Cleopatra regarded Rome as his second home and spent a great deal of money to support Caesar's cause. With money, Caesar paid his soldiers a good salary and improved the living conditions of the Roman citizens. His personal prestige reached its peak in Rome, where the Roman People's Assembly and the Senate conferred on him a lifetime honorary title of "Great General" and "Father of the Fatherland" in recognition of his exploits.
The people of Rome lived through a period of the fairest, most merciful and most enlightened. Some even believe that today's Western civilization was established on the ancient cornerstone of Caesar's Roman Empire. It was Cleopatra's wisdom and wealth that ushered in a political spring for Caesar.
Caesar even molded the goddess Venus in the image of Cleobarak, and his actions offended the holy gods. The deified statue of Cleopatra was offered to the temple of Venus, and Caesar asked his lover to accept the roman prostration in the form of a god. Caesar also issued a coin, on which Venus and Cupid were Cleopatra, queen of Caesarion, in her arms.
Roman obstruction made Cleopatra's marriage to Caesar difficult to achieve. After living in Rome for two years, she, a foreigner, had gained some degree of recognition here, and was embraced by admirers, calling her "queen". Nothing seemed to prevent her from carrying out her plans, and she expected Caesar to overthrow the Roman Constitution and unify her imperial cause.
Some nobles and officials of the Roman upper class were greatly dissatisfied with Caesar's welcoming the Queen of Egypt into Rome as a guest of honor, "It is shameless that the Queen of Egypt has secretly stolen into Rome." "Caesar's disregard for placing his legitimate wife, Capnya, in the palace far away on Mount Aventini, but fooling around with Egyptian women and taking the lead in undermining the morals and laws of Rome is an intolerable evil, and the undercurrent against her and Caesar has become a raging trend.
Second, some women in the Roman upper class also hated Cleopatra. Cleopatra toyed around and had the aristocratic men gather around her like dogs. This magnificent Egyptian woman, her jewelry and clothing, was always bright and extraordinary. Wouldn't she have corrupted Roman customs by bringing her and Caesar's illegitimate son to Rome to flaunt her might and show off in public?
Caesar was obstinate on the road to dictatorship, the crisis was coming step by step, and even Cleopatra had an ominous premonition. But Caesar did not care, as if the conspiracy had nothing to do with him.
After Caesar's position was consolidated, he clung to power and turned the Senate into a vain shelf, which made them infinitely nostalgic for the past and bitter hatred for Caesar who had taken away their privileges. They realized that the only way out was to orchestrate a murder to get rid of the dictator Caesar.
Vinzossen," The Assassination of Julius Caesar
On 15 March, Caesar attended a meeting of the Senate despite Cleopakla's obstruction. He was rushed to the assassination by many conspirators.
Antony, who was in charge of Rome's heavy army, immediately brought people to Caesar's house, took Caesar's documents and property certificates, and took a large number of state treasures in the temple for himself.
Caesar's will, jealousy stung Antony's heart. Caesar adopted Octavian as his adopted son and gave him the title of Julius. Caesar's name inherited his position. Antony decided to join forces with the Queen of Egypt against Octavian.
Cleopatra did not understand that she had given the egyptian duty and youth to Caesar completely, and that in the end there was nothing, that she had to make a way for her son, that they had to save their own future and unite with one another.
Anthony had a shrewd and capable wife, Flavia. She found Caesar's private secretary and forged dozens of documents. Antony seized a large amount of property, and his position became incomparably strong, competing with the Senate. The forged Caesar document recognized the Queen of Egypt's son as his rightful heir and appointed Antony as consul, who held the rule of Rome as Caesarion's guardian.
Just as Antony was struggling to conquer Rome, Octavian, who was only nineteen years old, came out to challenge him. At the time of Caesar's assassination, Octavian was studying military affairs in Apollonia. He secretly crossed the sea with some of Caesar's old men and returned to Rome, demanding that Antony return Caesar's property to him and distribute the money to the people according to his father's will. Antony reprimanded Octavian. Octavian was angry, but his cold expression masked the pain in his heart.
Now the Ptolemaic family consisted only of Cleobarat herself, her rightful husband, the little king, who had recently died of poisoning.
Now, back in Alexandria, she must make plans for herself and her son, otherwise who will safeguard their safety? Once again, she set her sights on Antony in Rome.
Antony at Caesar's funeral
Anthony's wife, Folvia, was a very ambitious woman. When she was young, she watched men turn the tables in politics and lamented that she was a woman, and her intelligence and ambition were wasted. Anthony was an all-seeing guy who was far from enough to influence the course of history. Such a man was in keeping with Forvia's appetite, and the ignorant Forvia encouraged Antony to become the dictator of Rome, forging caesar's new documents one after another. Anthony felt that he might become the master of half the world like Caesar.
The situation in Rome soon changed, and in the cry of "revenge for Caesar", the "last three heads" of the coalition government rose. They were Antony, Li Bida, Octavian. Soon, they made a pact, in which the three heads ruled together for five years, with Antony ruling Gaul; Octavian ruled Afrika, Sardinia, and Sicily: Spain was under the rule of Lybida. Italy is a common territory of three people. All three considered themselves Caesar's successors, dividing up Caesar's empire as if it were their ancestral property.
At the age of twenty-eight, Cleopatra is in the heyday of a woman, and the feminine beauty emanating from her has reached its most brilliant level, and her wisdom has fully matured. Antony, The Roma rookie, will be her next in the bag.
After being summoned by Anthony, Cleopatra made elaborate preparations for the meeting, equipped with many exquisite gifts, expensive ornaments, and her own posture and charm. The indulgent general, his flesh and blood, his game life, and his sophistication all aroused Cleopatra's curiosity.
I don't know who shouted "Anthony is coming", and the crowd automatically dodged a passage. At the queen's order, all the lantern-hung poles danced up and down, changing into various delicate and intricate flowers in the air. Seeing this scene, Anthony felt that he was just a hairy boy who had never seen the world, only knew how to fight, and the way of pleasure hedonism was so vulgar. He sent someone to ask the Queen to disembark and meet her. Unexpectedly, the queen instead sent a message to him to go to her royal ship.
This was undoubtedly an open challenge and disobedience for the conquerors. However, Anthony was only surprised. Involuntarily, he boarded the boat and walked over to the graceful and charming Queen Cleopatra. Colorful lights intertwine, the light is half light and half dark, just right to reflect the queen's enchanting posture. She leaned there lazily, stretched out her delicate white hand, and took Hold of Anthony's large dark rough hand. Cupid's arrow of love hit the heart of this self-proclaimed, arrogant and conceited man. The flowing autumn waves, the charming smile, and the plump carcass made Antony feel overwhelmed and unable to care about his dignity, and immediately fell under Cleopatra's pomegranate skirt and became her second prisoner of love.
Anthony was at the age of forty-two, and Cleopatra, at the age of twenty-eight, was at the peak of a brilliant life, an excellent union of power and wealth.
After a week of feasting and love, Anthony felt that he had changed, and he seemed to have found unprecedented confidence in the queen. The queen creates surprises one after another, changing the law to play some young people's games, stimulating the veteran of this love scene again and again, and making Anthony lose his soul. After living for forty-two years, he understood what a truly beautiful woman was. Cleopatra and Anthony both fell in love, and Anthony's exuberant energy seemed inexhaustible and inexhaustible, allowing Cleopatra to release her desires to the fullest. Love is a heart-strengthening agent in her life, which frees her from pain and returns to the path of light.
After a period of madness, the man's departure was as easy as his love for Cleopatra. When Cleopatra told him that their love had crystallized, Anthony burst out laughing, and then wished her and the child good luck, his mind no longer on her, and his mind was full of news of the battlefield.
Soon, the secret agent brought back a message that Antony and Octavian's sister Octavia had married in Rome, and Cleopatra suddenly realized: all this is happening naturally, otherwise how could they reconcile!
In order to drag Antony out of queen Cleopatra's love network, Forvia was bent on creating civil war and chaos in Italy and calling Antony back to Rome. Now that Folvia is dead, the woman's death is an opportunity that Octavian seized. After he had waited for some time, Octavian decently told his friends that his men wanted him and Antony to be uncles.
Anthony is determined to turn things around, and Octavian's sister is the intermediary who mediates between the two of them! It was Anthony's patron saint! Wasn't it Cleopatra's fault that he lost so many opportunities at home? All the winds and currents in Egypt should be left behind, and it is time to declare an end.
Anthony relied on foreign conquests to secure his position, and he had not been paid for months. Cleopatra was the richest woman in the world at the time and was well placed to meet his financial requirements. His longing for the soul-destroying lover once again fueled his passion, and four years of separation and lovesickness turned this passion into a fierce horse that escaped from the reins, causing Antony to immediately send someone to bring Cleopatra to Syria, regardless of the interests and consequences.
Cleopatra was abandoned for four years and did not receive a single letter of booing and greeting. As Queen of Egypt, both politically and as a mother of three, she had to accept Antony. Cleopatra was thirty-three years old, and she possessed wisdom, maturity and nobility. What I thought in my heart was completely different from the dream I didn't know at that time.
She had to raise an Anthony's "souvenir" of a pair of dragon and phoenix twins alone. She had cried, felt lonely and helpless, hated Anthony, and once wanted to break off her friendship with him. But she quickly regained her composure. The man was still in control of half the world after all, and offending him could threaten the security of Egypt. Therefore, the queen did not allow jealousy to grow arbitrarily, and reason triumphed over the desire for revenge. Cleopatra put his resentment behind him and figured out how to bargain with Anthony. Can the three hundred years of wealth accumulated by Ptolemaic ancestors buy her dignity?
This time, she would not dress herself up as a goddess like last time and ride the painting boat to seduce him. If Antony wanted to possess her, he had to meet her requirements: marry her, because her three children needed a father, her country needed protection, and the ambition to unite with Rome to establish world hegemony had haunted her.
Antony was again conquered by the Queen, and they quickly married. But the bride Cleopatra stood in front of the map, activated the lips, and began to ask Antony for the dowry, the ancient provinces that belonged to the Egyptian pharaohs fifteen hundred years ago, to establish a vast Egyptian empire. These provinces did not formally belong to Rome, but were the territory of vassal states that were subject to Rome.
Cleopatra stood straight in front of the map, holding a peacock quill in his right hand, drawing a few places on the map with great elegance, and seemingly casually saying: "Here, here,.... And this.... These places she marked include: the Sinai Peninsula, part of the Arabian Peninsula, the Marquis of Kalkis, part of the Josher River Valley, Jericha, parts of Samaria and Galilee, the coastal strip of Phoenicia, Lebanon, Anduraus. Part of the Cretan Peninsula, and parts of Silesia.
Cleopatra just kept drawing. Anthony, who was standing nearby, was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he thought to himself that this wife was too expensive! He eventually agreed to Cleopatra's request for a dowry, and she won. She laughed and spun around in Anthony's arms. Then the two men who picked up their husbands and returned to the hall side by side to feast and drink with the guests.
Before Antony's army could attack Persia, news of Antony's marriage and negotiations with the Queen of Egypt spread throughout Rome, and the Roman citizens were shocked.
Cleopatra and Antony formed a political marriage, and with his charm and Egyptian wealth, he completed the task of expanding the territory without a single soldier. After returning to the Egyptian royal palace, she was worshipped by courtiers. Cleopatra's personal career reached the pinnacle of his life. During Antony's expedition to Persia, Cleopatra bore him a third child, A little Ptolemy.
The Persian war waged by Antony ended in a crushing defeat. Queen Cleopatra was so frustrated that she was disappointed by Caesar's reputation and her joint victory with Caesar in Alexandria. Anthony wasted a great deal of her money in vain.
While Antony was busy with the Persian wars and the Egyptian queens, Octavian was forging a foothold in Rome to consolidate power. The next thing Cleopatra asked Antony to do was to raise her son to king. Caesarion was crowned King of Egypt and ruled with his mother.
Octavian was not good at fighting, but he was a man of great political talent. In order to attack Antony's reputation, Octavian launched a huge public opinion war, pointing the finger at his "unruly" relationship with Cleopatra, hoping to make Antony abandon his sister. And he took out from the temple the will of Antony, who wanted to be buried with Queen Cleobarat after his death, much to the anger of the Roman people.
Cleopatra was convinced that she was going to fight Octavian, and she had plenty of money and troops to support the matter. However, Anthony's mind is still wavering and depressed, and what she sees is a man who is indifferent to the situation, has no fighting spirit, is over fifty years old, is addicted to pleasure, and disappoints her every move. But there was no turning back for her. She staked the fate of Egypt on him.
The defeat in the naval battle snuffed out Cleopatra's last hope. Octavian's army will soon set foot on Egyptian soil, where will she go? If she can keep her son's throne, she is willing to take on everything! However, she could not trust Octavian, and perhaps Octavian would not have been kind to her. She would be sent to Rome as a captive. Eventually, after Octavian invaded alexandria, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide.
Octavian was somewhat disappointed and annoyed by Cleopatra's death, but he also admired her spirit and ordered cleopatra to be placed next to Antony with imperial ceremonies and pomp and circumstance, in accordance with Cleopatra's will, and her two maids were also buried with dignity.
In addition, Octavian had the Ptolemaic treasures transported out of the burial chambers and loaded onto Roman warships. Now he could pay all the legions.
After the death of Queen Cleopatra, Octavian turned Egypt into a Roman province, thus ending the three-hundred-year rule of the Ptolemaic family and losing Egypt's independence. Glory belongs to Greece, greatness belongs to Rome.
The queen had three sons, one daughter, the eldest son was Caesarion, and the second son, third son, and daughter were all born to Antony. With the exception of Caesarion, several other children were taken by Octavia to raise them along with her own children. Cleopatra The Younger, the daughter of Queen Cleopatra, later married the most learned king of Juba.
For Caesarion, Octavian believed that the man in the world who could compete for supremacy with him must be killed. From the day he entered Alexandria, Octavian sent spies to search for Caesarion with a vast net, and paid a considerable bounty. Surprisingly, Caesarion remained in Berenez and did not flee to India as arranged by the Queen. A polite officer came to see Caesarion and assured him: "Octavian is Caesar's adopted son, has a brotherly friendship with His Majesty, has no ill will at all, and recognizes you as king of Egypt before returning to Rome." Caesarion hesitated, abandoned his plan to flee to India, and followed them back. Approaching alexandria, they were also welcomed by Octavian's fleet in accordance with royal etiquette.
Octavian decided to give Caesarion another way to die. He secretly dispatched the killer. Caesarion's corpse was thrown into the sea. The magnificent dream constructed by Cleopatra VII was also extinguished.
Soon, Octavian will leave Egypt and return to Rome. Before leaving, he ordered that all statues of Antony and Cleopatra be torn down. A wealthy nobleman named Archibis had his slaves carry ten sacks of gold coins to be placed before Octavian, and the king of the world changed the order to the statue of Antony. The next day Octavian left Egypt by boat. Soon after his return to Rome, he established himself emperor, ending the republican history of rome for five hundred years and beginning the history of the empire for five hundred years after Rome.