King Ptolemy XII Auletes counted among his children at least three queens and two kings. How did one family produce so many rulers? The Ptolemaic royals apparently had a bad habit of executing ...

In case you’re not already familiar, Cleopatra became Queen of Egypt after her father, Ptolemy XII, died in 51 BC, per Brittanica. She was Egypt's last monarch before it became a province of the ...

The Gist: Cleopatra (Adele James) is part of the Ptolemaic dynasty, and at the tender age of 17, she took over Egypt, along with her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII (Calum Balmforth), when their ...

She was the daughter of Ptolemy XII and was born in 70/69 BCE. She was most famous as the lover of the Roman general Julius Caesar and later as the wife of another Roman general Mark Antony.

The fate of some of these monarchs had consequences for their nations. The death of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII while fighting Julius Caesar’s legions led to the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.

Thrust onto the world stage by her father, Ptolemy XII, she ruled a country in tumult, one on the verge of crumbling under the mighty Roman Empire. Only 17 years old when she took the throne ...

Arsinoë IV led quite an adventurous short life. She was either the third or fourth daughter of Ptolemy XII, who left the throne to Cleopatra and his son, Ptolemy XIII, to rule together.

Here’s what is known about the legendary, yet mysterious, queen. Born to Egyptian king Ptolemy XII Auletes and an unknown mother in 69 B.C., Cleopatra was a member of an ancient Greek dynasty ...

her father Ptolemy XII Auletes died, setting in motion the “deceptively smooth” transfer of power—which Ms. Prose prefaces with an aside on the 2020 election—to Cleopatra and her younger ...