How Does Cleopatra Have Power

Queen of Kings; Goddess to All For thousands of years, a myth was able to overrule a fact. The twists and turns from stories never being transferred into hard copy, but only being spread by the word of mouth. Cleopatra VII Philopator has had many different stories told about her, but what few forget to remember is that she is was the most powerful ruler of all time, and the only woman to sit upon a throne and rule in the ancient times. Cleopatra stood in the most dangerous crossroads of all time; woman and power. Years of schooling and discipline has lead the princess to this day, the crowing. Her father passed away earlier this year, leaving the government in Cleopatra, 18, and her brothers, 10, hands. It is scary to think
Egyptian women enjoyed the right to choose who they married. Over time their freedom to make choice increased to heights unheard of in the ancient world. Married woman did not submit to their husbands control and had the right to leave their spouse at any time with the court support. She was entitled to live in the house of her choice. They served as priests, they initiated lawsuits and hired who they pleased. As much as one third of Ptolemaic Egypt may have been in the firm grasp of women. Cleopatra was a prankster, often making fun of the sarcastic words of Herodotus, a Greek author. She would publicly stand while urinating and say “the women of egypt urinate standing up, and the men sitting down!” Mimicking Herodotus’s words. Cleopatra descended from a long line of murders and faithfully upheld the family name, but for her time and her humor she was shockingly well behaved. When she was supposed to rule side by side with her brother, as husband and wife, she forced him to step aside, only for her to be shunned later. In the end she got her way, and ruled most of the eastern Mediterranean
This news provided shock to all egyptians, because for centuries, the Romans served as protectors for the Egyptian Monarchies. This provided conflict, because not only was she shocked at the betrayal of Julius Caesar, but she was stuck in the allies of Pompey as well, both Cleopatra and her brother where in his debt. Cleopatra soon came to realize, the chances of being murdered by someone who owed you a favor where as good as being murdered by a member of your immediate family. After crushing the egyptian army, Julius Caesar stayed in the palace where Cleopatra resided to plan the queens fate. But in the wee hours of the night, Cleopatra wrapped herself in a rug, and was taken into his bed quarters. You’d think she would be trying to kill him, instead she rose slowly, elapsed in sweet perfume. He fell in love with the queen, and forced her back into power. But not long after that he was assassinated, leaving Cleopatra in fear of roman