The Seductive Cleopatra VII Philopator Queen and Sex Symbol 3D Render, Digital Artwork by mverkamp

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The Seductive Cleopatra VII Philopator Queen and Sex Symbol

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In 51 BC, the joint reign of Cleopatra (69 BC to 30 BC) and her brother Ptolemy XIII began. Although the common view of Cleopatra was one of a prolific seductress, she had only two known partners, Caesar and Antony, the two most prominent Romans of the time period, who were most likely to ensure the survival of her dynasty. In his unfinished 1825 short story The Egyptian Nights, Alexander Pushkin popularized the claims of the 4th-century Roman historian Aurelius Victor, previously largely ignored, that Cleopatra had prostituted herself to men who paid for sex with their lives. By the end of the 20th century there were forty-three films, two hundred plays and novels, forty-five operas, and five ballets associated with Cleopatra.