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Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII and an uncertain mother, [32] [33] [note 13] presumably Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra V Tryphaena (who may have been the same person as Cleopatra VI Tryphaena), [34] [35] [36] [note 14] [note 2] the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphaneia.
Cleopatra, daughter of King Tros of Troy and Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Scamander. [2] She was the sister of Ilus, Assaracus, Ganymede [3] and possibly, Cleomestra. [4] Cleopatra and Cleomestra probably refer to the same individual. Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas (North wind) and the Athenian princess, Oreithyia.
Cleopatra originally came from a village called Edra near Mount Tabor in Lower Galilee. [3] She was a contemporary of the holy martyr Saint Varus and had witnessed his suffering and execution. After Varus' death, Cleopatra had his remains taken to her home in Daraa, Syria where she had them buried with reverence.
Cleopatra Selene of Syria (c. between 135 and 130 – 69 BC), daughter of Cleopatra III and Ptolemy VIII Physcon; Cleopatra of Pontus (110–after 58 BC), wife of Tigranes the Great; Cleopatra of Jerusalem (1st century BC), wife of Herod the Great; Cleopatra Selene II (40–5 BC), daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony
The name has been embraced by many cultures where Greek influence was felt, including Cleopatra, the powerful queen of ancient Egypt, whose name was derived from Cleo. In Western societies in more recent times, Cleo has evolved as a variant or short form of Cleopatra and used as a given name. [2]
The reign of Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt began with the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, by March 51 BC.It ended with her suicide in August 30 BC, [note 1] which also marked the conclusion of the Hellenistic period and the annexation of Egypt into a Roman province.
The word was used in the title of a brief alchemical work, the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra attributed to Cleopatra the Alchemist, which was probably written in the first centuries of the Christian era, but which is first found on a single leaf in a tenth-to-eleventh century manuscript in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, MS Marciana gr. Z. 299. [2]
Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses the Great.She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, among such women as Cleopatra, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut, and one of the most prominent not known or thought to have reigned in her own right.