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    (Πάτροκλος). Cleopatra was the name of Alexander the Great's sister Cleopatra of Macedonia, as well as the wife of Meleager in Greek mythology, Cleopatra Alcyone...
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    Antony taking the former and Octavian the latter. Cleopatra VII of Ptolemaic Egypt, a pharaoh of Macedonian Greek descent who ruled from Alexandria, had an...
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    and Cleopatra that portrayed Cleopatra as having "Macedonian-Greek descent. Pascale Aebischer's analysis of race in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra further...
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    The reign of Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt began with the death of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, by March 51 BC. It ended with her...
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    Greco-Macedonian elites and royal families usually remained thoroughly Greek and viewed most non-Greeks with disdain. It was not until Cleopatra VII that...
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    defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Antony and his wife Cleopatra, the Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, killed themselves during Octavian's invasion...
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    Cleopatra Mithridates, King of Pontus Orodes, King of Parthia Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Marcus Tullius Cicero Marcus Antonius the Triumvir and Cleopatra...
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    notably the Battle of Actium in 31 BC against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. He was also responsible for the construction of some of the most notable...
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    Demetrius I Poliorcetes (category 3rd-century BC Macedonian monarchs)
    Dēmḗtrios Poliorkētḗs, lit. 'the Besieger of Cities'; 337 – 283 BC) was a Macedonian Greek nobleman and military leader who became king of Asia between 306...
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    geographic origins. The race and skin color of Cleopatra VII, the last active Hellenistic ruler of the Macedonian Greek Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, established...
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    Battle of Actium (category Cleopatra)
    led by Marcus Agrippa, and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and Cleopatra. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea, near the...
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    De Mulieribus Claris (category Depictions of Cleopatra in literature)
    of Cruscellio 86. Cornificia, a poet 87. Mariamme, queen of Judaea 88. Cleopatra, queen of Egypt 89. Antonia, daughter of Antony 90. Agrippina, wife of...
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    Julius Caesar (category Cleopatra)
    installed Cleopatra as ruler. Caesar and Cleopatra celebrated the victory with a triumphal procession on the Nile. He stayed in Egypt with Cleopatra until...
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    defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, the Emperor Augustus separated Greece, Thessaly, and part of Epirus from Macedonia in 27 BC.The new...
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    province of Egypt, which was incorporated by Augustus after the death of Cleopatra and was ruled by a governor of only equestrian rank, perhaps as a discouragement...
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    became the dominant force in the Aegean by destroying Antigonid Macedonia in the Macedonian Wars and Corinth in the Achaean War. The Hellenistic kingdoms...
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    Cassander (category Regents of Macedonia (ancient kingdom))
    romanized: Kássandros; c. 355 BC – 297 BC) was king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia from 305 BC until 297 BC, and de facto ruler of southern Greece from 317...
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  • epic story of Alexander the Great, The Sands of Ammon narrates of the Macedonian king's quest to conquer Asia. He and his men storm and conquer Persian...
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    Machares and Pharnaces II of Pontus. Their daughters were Cleopatra of Pontus (sometimes called Cleopatra the Elder to distinguish her from her sister of the...
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    Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name...
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    VI, Vercingetorix of the Arverni tribe of Gaul, and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. At home, during the Conflict of the Orders, the patricians, the closed...
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    of Dionysus floor mosaic House of the Masks House of Cleopatra Statues at the House of Cleopatra House of the Lake Temple of Isis Bust of Hermes Mosaic...
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    Lysimachus (category Hellenistic Macedonia)
    of Macedonians; all these brothers enjoyed with Lysimachus prominent positions in Alexander’s circle and, like him, were educated at the Macedonian court...
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  • ""Клеопатра" (Cleopatra, 1963)". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 April 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2019. "Cleopatra (1963)". JP's...
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    Dionysus (redirect from Di-wo-ni-so-jo)
    deification ceremony where Mark Antony became Dionysus-Osiris, alongside Cleopatra as Isis-Aphrodite. Egyptian myths about Priapus said that the Titans conspired...
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  • Imperium: Augustus (category Depictions of Cleopatra on film)
    and politics. However, Antony becomes the lover of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, and being taken in by the Egyptian culture of divinity, he abandons Octavia...
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    “most lovely,” and that she “equalled in beauty her [claimed] ancestor Cleopatra.” British scholar William Wright visited Palmyra toward the end of the...
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    kingdom of Macedonia is always considered part of the Greek world, in the Classical period it was a distinct entity and even though Macedonian language...
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    Seleucid Empire (category Offshoots of the Macedonian Empire)
    period. It was founded in 312 BC by the Macedonian general Seleucus I Nicator, following the division of the Macedonian Empire founded by Alexander the Great...
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    the Senate of Rome declared war on Cleopatra, the last Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, in late 32 BC, Antony and Cleopatra were defeated at the battle of Actium...
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