![]() ![]() Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever (her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were as much to do with politics as the heart), she steered her kingdom through impossibly taxing internal problems and railed against greedy Roman imperialism. She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Shakespeare and Tiepolo (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. The Romans regarded her as 'fatale monstrum', a tyrant to be crushed. ![]() Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Gre. ![]() ![]()
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