Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; [note 4] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. [ note 5 ] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty , she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter , a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great .
Cleopatra and Cleomestra probably refer to the same individual. Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas (North wind) and the Athenian princess, Oreithyia . She was the first wife of Phineus by whom he had a pair of sons, named either Plexippus and Pandion , [ 5 ] or Gerymbas and Aspondus , [ 6 ] or Polydector ( Polydectus ) and Polydorus , [ 7 ] or ...
Cleopatra I or Cleopatra Thea (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά, which means "Cleopatra the Goddess"; c. 164 – 121 BC), surnamed Eueteria (εὐετηρῐ́ᾱ lit. ' good-harvest/fruitful season ' ) was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire .
A bronze ring dedicated to the goddess Hathor was unearthed as well. Bust of a female wearing a diadem may depict Cleopatra VII (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)
"Queen Cleopatra, the younger goddess". [46] Cleopatra's official Ptolemaic coinage (which she would have approved) and the three Roman portrait busts of her considered authentic by scholars (which match her coins) portray Cleopatra as a Greek woman in style, including the Greek chiton, Hellenistic diadem, and Greek chignon.
Queen Cleopatra's life is explored in a Netflix docuseries by the same name. The Egyptian queen had at least 2 husbands and famous lovers. Here's what to know:
[175] [171] Cleopatra presented herself as the Egyptian goddess Isis in the appearance of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, meeting her divine husband Osiris in the form of the Greek god Dionysus, the latter whom the priests of Artemis at Ephesus had associated with Antony prior to this meeting with Cleopatra. [171]
Coin of Cleopatra VII, with her image [31] and a Greek inscription "θεά νεωτέρα" thea neotera, lit. "the younger goddess", one of Cleopatra's adopted titles. [32] Cleopatra VII ascended the Egyptian throne on 22 March 51 BC upon the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos. [33]