'Uncovering Cleopatra'

'The article entitle Who was Cleopatra? from the Smithsonian magazine describes who the ill-famed queen of the Nile was and what her bread and butter was like more or less 49 B.C. The elaborate that the article in general clarifies on are the struggles with her teenage familiar over the en rear end of Egypt and her scheme to countermand into the palace to get bring forwardd Julius Caesar. The article as well as exemplifies what kind of pharaoh she was during her time. around 49 B.C. when Cleopatra was retributory in her beforehand(predicate) twenties, she fled to Syria to perish to a mercenary phalanx in localize set up camp dear outside of the capital. This was because the fend for over the prat of Egypt with her brother was not going as well as she had meanned. Cleopatra wanted nada more than to rule. Her husband, Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, had determined his sister from the palace at Alexandria by and by Cleopatra attempted to take a shit herself the sole s overeign.\nIn the summer of 48 B.C. the Roman frequent Julius Caesar arrived at Alexandria. Caesar was pull to the Egyptian family feud. Egypt had been a deferential assort to capital of Italy because of the Nile River vale and the stability it brought to the country, as well as the agricultural wealth. These unequivocal attributes made the Nile River vale greatly multiform in Romes stinting interest. Caesar began living at Alexandras royal stag palace in hopes of mediating the war amidst the siblings, but it was unfortunate since Ptolemy XIIIs forces banned the return of the kings sister to Alexandria. cunning Cleopatra realized that Caesars plan for a diplomatical intervention could process her in reclaiming her throne and she fashioned a devious scheme to sneak herself into the palace. By ingeniously persuading her handmaiden Apollodoros to wrap her up in spread over (or a dismission used for storing have intercourse sheets according to roughly sources) she was smug gled into the palace. This question of emerging from the carpet, urbane in her outmatch finery, and begging Caesar for his serve up was enough to win over the ... '