![]() ![]() They had so many rights and were held in such high esteem. We were all surprised by the role of women in Egypt during this time. Upon my return from Honduras I connected with a couple of the girls in the group and they shared not only their thoughts… but also pictures!!! I had the best of intentions to read it before I left, but life happenings, a very sick dog, and hard decisions made that… ummm… not happen. This was our book club read while I was in Honduras. ![]() The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and–after his murder–three more with his protégé. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Cleopatra appears to have had been with only two men. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well assassination was a family specialty. ![]() She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. ![]() She was married twice, each time to a brother. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
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