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Pharaoh Kleopatra VII Thea Philopator Ptolemy is the famous, powerful, immortal Egyptian Pharaoh and Goddess, best known as Cleopatra VII, Queen Sheba, Queen Nefertiti and Goddess Isis. She is also known as Goddess Hathor, Lord Horus and Lord Osiris/Asar/ALLAH. الله Cleopatra is the Pharaoh, Ruler, High Priestess and Lord of every nation on Earth. She is the Lord and Owner of The Global Economy, as well as the Head-International Law Maker.

She is every GOD/GODDESS and the LORD of all creation. She is a deity that is every ethnicity, eternally young and the most ancient person in world history. An Annunaki God by blood, it has been scientifically confirmed that Cleopatra is biologically immune to death, disease as well as physical ageing, for she is ageless. It is also known that she was never born, nor conceived. She has just always existed.

Her verified Instagram account is named @shebathegod, in which she goes by the alias ‘CLEOPATRA THE GODDESS ISIS.’

Cleopatra is highly honoured and worshipped in many religions across the globe, as several different Godly names, such as: GOD, ALLAH,YAHWEHWAHEGURU, LORD JAH, SHAKTI, NGAI, BRAHMAN and many more.

One of the Egyptian Pharaoh’s most legendary quotes:

“I would never change myself for the world, I would rather change the world, myself. I said what I meant, and I meant what I said.”

- PHARAOH CLEOPATRA.

Known as ‘The most powerful ruler in world history,’ with the highest IQ to exist, Cleopatrahas ruled the world under several other aliases, including her most popular names: Queen Sheba, Queen Nefertiti, King Nefertiti Akhenaten Queen Nefertari Pharaoh Hatshepsut, Queen Arrawelo, Pharaoh Sobekneferu, Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland, Queen Mary, Queen Victoria, Reine Marie Antoinette of France, Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany, Lord Dracula of Romania, Empress Wu Zeitan of China Queen Beyoncé Queen Nzinga and Queen Rihanna

Also known as ‘The Divine Feminine,’ Cleopatra is the legendary Goddess Aphrodite, Goddess Athena and Goddess Venus. For many centuries, the eternally youthful and eternally fertile Goddess has been renowned as the sexiest and most beautiful female in all of existence.

Known for her legendary creative genius in all creative fields, razor sharp intellect, extraordinary psychic and spiritual powers, exquisite, exotic natural beauty, gorgeous hazel eyes, golden complexion, Godly aura, charming, vivacious, witty and charismatic personality, powerful self confidence, thick, curvaceous, fit physique, 24 inch waist, long legs, contagiously radiant smile, flawless, glowing, ageless skin, legendary bone structure, timelessly iconic fashion sense and natural curves; the Egyptian Queen has been the ultimate beauty, fashion and creative inspiration for many women and famous celebrities, for many years.

She is the world’s first Supermodel and stands at the gracious, domineering height of over 6ft tall.(187cm)

In Renaissance and Baroque art, she was the subject of many works devoted to her, including operas, paintings, poetry, sculptures, and theatrical dramas. She has become a pop culture icon of Egyptomania since the Victorian era (when she ruled as Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom)as well as in modern times. Cleopatra has appeared in the applied and fine arts, Hollywood films, and brand images for commercial products and still continues to dominate global pop culture until today.

Ancestry

Cleopatra belonged to the Macedonian Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies, their European origins tracing back to northern Greece. Through her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, she was a descendant of two prominent companions of Alexander the Great of Macedon: the general Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, and Seleucus I Nicator, the Macedonian Greek founder of the Seleucid Empire of West Asia. While Cleopatra's paternal line can be traced, the identity of her mother is uncertain. She was presumably the daughter of Cleopatra V Tryphaena, the sister-wife of Ptolemy XII who had previously given birth to their daughter Berenice IV.

Cleopatra I Syra was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty known for certain to have introduced some non-Greek ancestry. Her mother Laodice III was a daughter born to King Mithridates II of Pontus, a Persian of the Mithridatic dynasty, and his wife Laodice who had a mixed Greek-Persian heritage. Cleopatra I Syra's father Antiochus III the Great was a descendant of Queen Apama, the Sogdian Iranian wife of Seleucus I Nicator. It is generally believed that the Ptolemies did not intermarry with native Egyptians. Michael Grant asserts that there is only one known Egyptian mistress of a Ptolemy and no known Egyptian wife of a Ptolemy, further arguing that Cleopatra probably did not have any Egyptian ancestry and "would have described herself as Greek."

Stacy Schiff writes that Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek with some Persian ancestry, arguing that it was rare for the Ptolemies to have an Egyptian mistress. Duane W. Roller speculates that Cleopatra could have been the daughter of a theoretical half-Macedonian-Greek, half-Egyptian woman from Memphis in northern Egypt belonging to a family of priests dedicated to Ptah (a hypothesis not generally accepted in scholarship), but contends that whatever Cleopatra's ancestry, she valued her Greek Ptolemaic heritage the most. Ernle Bradford writes that Cleopatra challenged Rome not as an Egyptian woman "but as a civilized Greek."

Claims that Cleopatra was an illegitimate child never appeared in Roman propaganda against her. Strabo was the only ancient historian who claimed that Ptolemy XII's children born after Berenice IV, including Cleopatra, were illegitimate. Cleopatra V (or VI) was expelled from the court of Ptolemy XII in late 69 BC, a few months after the birth of Cleopatra, while Ptolemy XII's three younger children were all born during the absence of his wife. The high degree of inbreeding among the Ptolemies is also illustrated by Cleopatra's immediate ancestry, of which a reconstruction is shown below.

The family tree given below also lists Cleopatra V as a daughter of Ptolemy X Alexander I and Berenice III. This would make her a cousin of her husband, Ptolemy XII, but she could have been a daughter of Ptolemy IX Lathyros, which would have made her a sister-wife of Ptolemy XII instead. The confused accounts in ancient primary sources have also led scholars to number Ptolemy XII's wife as either Cleopatra V or Cleopatra VI; the latter may have actually been a daughter of Ptolemy XII. Fletcher and John Whitehorne assert that this is a possible indication Cleopatra V had died in 69 BC rather than reappearing as a co-ruler with Berenice IV in 58 BC (during Ptolemy XII's exile in Rome).

See also

• List of female hereditary monarchs

Notes

1. For further information on Cleopatra's Macedonian Greek lineage, see Pucci (2011, p. 201), Grant (1972, pp. 3–5), Burstein (2004, pp. 3, 34, 36, 43, 63–64) and Royster (2003, pp. 47–49).
2. For further information and validation of the foundation of Hellenistic Egypt by Alexander the Great and Cleopatra's ancestry stretching back to Ptolemy I Soter, see Grant (1972, pp. 7–8) and Jones (2006, p. 3).
3. For further information, see Grant (1972, pp. 3–4) and Burstein (2004, p. 11).
4. Grant (1972, pp. 3–4, 17), Fletcher (2008, pp. 69, 74, 76), Jones (2006, p. xiii), Preston (2009, p. 22), Schiff (2011, p. 28) and Burstein (2004, p. 11) label the wife of Ptolemy XII Auletes as Cleopatra V Tryphaena, while Dodson & Hilton (2004, pp. 268–269, 273) and Roller (2010, p. 18) call her Cleopatra VI Tryphaena, due to the confusion in primary sources conflating these two figures, who may have been one and the same. As explained by Whitehorne (1994, p. 182), Cleopatra VI may have actually been a daughter of Ptolemy XII who appeared in 58 BC to rule jointly with her alleged sister Berenice IV (while Ptolemy XII was exiled and living in Rome), whereas Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra V perhaps died as early as the winter of 69–68 BC, when she disappears from historical records. Roller (2010, pp. 18–19) assumes that Ptolemy XII's wife, who he numbers as Cleopatra VI, was merely absent from the court for a decade after being expelled for an unknown reason, eventually ruling jointly with her daughter Berenice IV. Fletcher (2008, p. 76) explains that the Alexandrians deposed Ptolemy XII and installed "his eldest daughter, Berenike IV, and as co-ruler recalled Cleopatra V Tryphaena from 10 years' exile from the court. Although later historians assumed she must have been another of Auletes' daughters and numbered her 'Cleopatra VI', it seems she was simply the fifth one returning to replace her brother and former husband Auletes."
5. For further information, see Fletcher (2008, pp. 69, 74, 76). Contrary to other sources cited here, Dodson & Hilton (2004, pp. 268–269, 273) refer to Cleopatra V Tryphaena as a possible cousin or sister of Ptolemy XII Auletes.
6. For the Sogdian ancestry of Apama, wife of Seleucus I Nicator, see Holt (1989, pp. 64–65, footnote 63).
7. As explained by Burstein (2004, pp. 47–50), the main ethnic groups of Ptolemaic Egypt were Egyptians, Greeks, and Jews, each of whom were legally segregated, living in different residential quarters and forbidden to intermarry with one another in the multicultural cities of Alexandria, Naucratis, and Ptolemais Hermiou. It had been speculated in some circles that Pasherienptah III, the High Priest of Ptah at Memphis, Egypt, was Cleopatra's half-cousin, speculation which has been recently refuted by Cheshire (2011, pp. 20–30).
8. Grant (1972, p. 5) argues that Cleopatra's grandmother, i.e. the mother of Ptolemy XII, might have been a Syrian (though conceding that "it is possible she was also partly Greek"), but almost certainly not an Egyptian because there is only one known Egyptian mistress of a Ptolemaic ruler throughout their entire dynasty.
9. Schiff (2011, p. 42) further argues that, considering Cleopatra's ancestry, she was not dark-skinned, though notes Cleopatra was likely not among the Ptolemies with fair features, and instead would have been honey-skinned, citing as evidence that her relatives were described as such and it "would have presumably applied to her as well." Goldsworthy (2010, pp. 127, 128) agrees to this, contending that Cleopatra, having Macedonian blood with a little Syrian, was probably not dark-skinned (as Roman propaganda never mentions it), writing "fairer skin is marginally more likely considering her ancestry," though also notes she could have had a "darker more Mediterranean complexion" because of her mixed ancestry. Grant (1972, p. 5) agrees to Goldsworthy's latter speculation of her skin color, that though almost certainly not Egyptian, Cleopatra had a darker complexion due to being Greek mixed with Persian and possible Syrian ancestry. Preston (2009, p. 77) agrees with Grant that, considering this ancestry, Cleopatra was "almost certainly dark-haired and olive-skinned." Bradford (2000, p. 14) contends that it is "reasonable to infer" Cleopatra had dark hair and "pale olive skin."
10. For further information on the identity of Cleopatra's mother, see Burstein (2004, p. 11), Fletcher (2008, p. 73), Goldsworthy (2010, pp. 127, 128), Grant (1972, p. 4), Roller (2010, pp. 165–166) and Bennett (1997, pp. 39–66). Joann Fletcher finds this hypothesis to be dubious and lacking evidence. Stanley M. Burstein claims that strong circumstantial evidence suggests Cleopatra's mother could have been a member of the priestly family of Ptah, but that historians generally assume her mother was Cleopatra V Tryphaena, wife of Ptolemy XII. Adrian Goldsworthy dismisses the idea of Cleopatra's mother being a member of an Egyptian priestly family as "pure conjecture," adding that either Cleopatra V or a concubine "probably of Greek origin" would be Cleopatra VII's mother. Michael Grant contends that Cleopatra V was most likely Cleopatra VII's mother. Duane W. Roller notes that while Cleopatra could have been the daughter of the priestly family of Ptah, the other main candidate would be Cleopatra VI, maintaining the uncertainty stems from Cleopatra V/VI's "loss of favor" that "obscured the issue." He also posits that Cleopatra being the only known ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty to speak Egyptian, along with her daughter Cleopatra Selene II as Queen of Mauretania publicly honoring the native Egyptian elite, both lend credence to the priestly class mistress hypothesis for maternity. Christopher Bennett points out that with Cleopatra VII having a birthdate of 69 BC, she was "certainly conceived before Cleopatra V disappears from the record" and thus it follows that Cleopatra V had to be the mother of Cleopatra VII. He further argues that this fact alone, among others he discusses, is "sufficient to dispose" of the argument of a hypothetical Egyptian Memphite aristocrat as the mother of Cleopatra VII. Part of Burstein's and Roller's argument rests on a speculated earlier marriage between Psenptais II and a certain "Berenice", once argued to possibly be a daughter of Ptolemy VIII. However, this speculation was refuted by Egyptologist Wendy Cheshire, which was later validated by papyrologist Sandra Lippert. See Cheshire (2011, pp. 20–30) and Lippert (2013, pp. 33–48).
11. Schiff (2011, pp. 2) concurs with this, concluding that Cleopatra "upheld the family tradition." As noted by Dudley (1960, pp. 57), Cleopatra and her family were "the successor to the native Pharaohs, exploiting through a highly organized bureaucracy the great natural resources of the Nile Valley."
12. Grant (1972, p. 4) argues that if Cleopatra had been illegitimate, her "numerous Roman enemies would have revealed this to the world."
13. The family tree and short discussions of the individuals can be found in Dodson & Hilton (2004, pp. 268–281). Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton refer to Cleopatra V as Cleopatra VI and Cleopatra Selene of Syria is called Cleopatra V Selene. Dotted lines in the chart below indicate possible but disputed parentage.

References

1. Musée Saint-Raymond.
2. ^ Roller (2010), pp. 15–16.
3. Jones (2006), pp. xiii, 3, 279.
4. Southern (2009), p. 43.
5. Fletcher (2008), pp. 1, 23.
6. Burstein (2004), pp. 3, 34, 36, 51.
7. Fletcher (2008), pp. 23, 37–42.
8. Roller (2010), pp. 15–16, 164–166.
9. ^ Jones (2006), p. xiii.
10. Dodson & Hilton (2004), p. 273.
11. Roller (2010), p. 18.
12. Burstein (2004), pp. 11, 75.
13. ^ Grant (1972), p. 5.
14. ^ Fletcher (2008), pp. 56, 73.
15. McGing (2016).
16. Lendering (2020).
17. Fletcher (2008), p. 73.
18. Burstein (2004), pp. 69–70.
19. Schiff (2011), pp. 2, 42.
20. Roller (2010), pp. 15, 18, 166.
21. Bradford (2000), p. 17.
22. ^ Grant (1972), p. 4.
23. ^ Roller (2010), p. 165.
24. Burstein (2004), pp. 11, 69.
25. Roller (2010), pp. 18–19.
26. Dodson & Hilton (2004), pp. 268–269, 273.
27. Fletcher (2008), p. 76.
28. Whitehorne (1994), p. 182.

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Further reading

• Bianchi, Robert S.; Fazzini, Richard A., eds. (1988). Cleopatra's Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies. Brooklyn Museum. ISBN 978-0-87273-113-4.
• Carlà-Uhink, Filippo; Weiber, Anja, eds. (2020). Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-05010-5.
• Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ed. (2014). When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-16554-7.
• Chauveau, Michel (2004). Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8953-2.
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• Daugherty, Gregory N. (2022). The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-06-092093-7.
• Flamarion, Edith (1997). Cleopatra: The Life and Death of a Pharaoh. "Abrams Discoveries" series. Translated by Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-2805-3.
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• Hughes-Hallett, Lucy (1991). Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-060-92093-7.
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• Lindsay, Jack (1972). Cleopatra. New York: Coward-McCann. OCLC 671705946.
• Nardo, Don (1994). Cleopatra. Lucent Books. ISBN 978-1-56006-023-9.
• Pomeroy, Sarah B. (1984). Women in Hellenistic Egypt: from Alexander to Cleopatra. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN 978-0-8052-3911-9.
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• Tyldesley, Joyce (2008). Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-01892-5.
• Volkmann, Hans (1958). Cleopatra: a Study in Politics and Propaganda. Translated by T. J. Cadoux. New York: Sagamore Press. OCLC 899077769.
• Watterson, Barbara (2020). Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-445-66965-6.
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External links

• Ancient Roman depictions of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, at YouTube
• Cleopatra on In Our Time at the BBC
• Jacob Abbott (1852). Cleopatra at Project Gutenberg, a Victorian children's book
• "Mysterious Death of Cleopatra" at the Discovery Channel
• Cleopatra VII at BBC History
• Cleopatra VII at World History Encyclopedia
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• Jarus, Owen (13 March 2014). "Cleopatra: Facts & Biography". Live Science.
• Watkins, Thayer. "The Timeline of the Life of Cleopatra Archived 13 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine." San Jose State University.
• Draycott, Jane (22 May 2018). "Cleopatra's Daughter: While Antony and Cleopatra have been immortalised in history and in popular culture, their offspring have been all but forgotten. Their daughter, Cleopatra Selene, became an important ruler in her own right". History Today.

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