{"id":24035,"date":"2025-11-10T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:17:55","slug":"sylum-inspiration-cleopatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-cleopatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: Cleopatra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vampire Council: Council Member<\/h2>\n

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The identity of<\/span> Cleopatra\u2019s<\/a> mother is unknown, but she is generally believed to be Cleopatra V Tryphaena of Egypt, the sister or cousin and wife of Ptolemy XII Auletes, or possibly another Ptolemaic family member who was the daughter of Ptolemy X and Cleopatra Berenice III Philopator if Cleopatra V was not the daughter of Ptolemy X and Berenice III. Cleopatra\u2019s father Auletes was a direct descendant of Alexander the Great\u2019s general, Ptolemy I Soter, son of Arsinoe and Lagus, both of Macedon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Centralization of power and corruption led to uprisings in and the losses of Cyprus and Cyrenaica, making Ptolemy XII\u2019s reign one of the most calamitous of the dynasty. When Ptolemy went to Rome with Cleopatra, Cleopatra VI Tryphaena seized the crown but died shortly afterwards in suspicious circumstances. It is believed, though not proven by historical sources, that Berenice IV poisoned her so she could assume sole rulership. Regardless of the cause, she did until Ptolemy Auletes returned in 55 BC, with Roman support, capturing Alexandria aided by Roman general Aulus Gabinius. Berenice was imprisoned and executed shortly afterwards, her head allegedly being sent to the royal court on the decree of her father, the king. Cleopatra was now, at age 14, put as joint regent and deputy of her father, although her power was likely to have been severely limited.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ptolemy XII died in March 51 BC, thus by his will making the 18-year-old Cleopatra and her brother, the 10-year-old Ptolemy XIII joint monarchs. The first three years of their reign were difficult, due to economic failures, famine, deficient floods of the Nile, and political conflicts. Although Cleopatra was married to her young brother, she quickly made it clear that she had no intention of sharing power with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

In August 51 BC, relations between Cleopatra and Ptolemy completely broke down. Cleopatra dropped Ptolemy\u2019s name from official documents and her face appeared alone on coins, which went against Ptolemaic tradition of female rulers being subordinate to male co-rulers. In 50 BC Cleopatra came into a serious conflict with the Gabiniani, powerful Roman troops of Aulus Gabinius who had left them in Egypt to protect Ptolemy XII after his restoration to the throne in 55 BC. The Gabiniani killed the sons of the Roman governor of Syria, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, when they came to ask for the assistance of the Gabiniani for their father against the Parthians. Cleopatra handed the murderers over in chains to Bibulus, whereupon the Gabiniani turned into bitter enemies of the queen. This conflict was one of the main causes of Cleopatra\u2019s fall from power shortly afterward. The sole reign of Cleopatra was finally ended by a cabal of courtiers, led by the eunuch Pothinus, in connection with a half-Greek general, Achillas, and Theodotus of Chios. Circa 48 BC, Cleopatra\u2019s younger brother Ptolemy XIII became sole ruler.<\/span><\/p>\n

She tried to raise a rebellion around Pelusium, but was soon forced to flee with her only remaining sister, Arsino\u00eb.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eager to take advantage of Julius Caesar\u2019s anger toward Ptolemy, Cleopatra had herself smuggled secretly into the palace to meet with Caesar. Plutarch in his \u201cLife of Julius Caesar\u201d gives a vivid description of how she entered past Ptolemy\u2019s guards rolled up in a carpet that Apollodorus the Sicilian was carrying. She became Caesar\u2019s mistress, and nine months after their first meeting, in 47 BC, Cleopatra gave birth to their son, Ptolemy Caesar, nicknamed Caesarion, which means \u201clittle Caesar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, Caesar abandoned his plans to annex Egypt, instead backing Cleopatra\u2019s claim to the throne. After Mithridates raised the siege of Alexandria, Caesar defeated Ptolemy\u2019s army at the Battle of the Nile; Ptolemy XIII drowned in the Nile and Caesar restored Cleopatra to her throne, with another younger brother Ptolemy XIV as her new co-ruler. When Caesar left Egypt he stationed there a Roman occupying army of three legions under the command of Rufio.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Cleopatra was 21 years old when they met and Caesar was 52, they became lovers during Caesar\u2019s stay in Egypt between 48 BC and 47 BC. Cleopatra claimed Caesar was the father of her son and wished him to name the boy his heir, but Caesar refused, choosing his grandnephew Octavian instead. During this relationship, it was also rumored that Cleopatra introduced Caesar to her astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, who first proposed the idea of leap days and leap years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cleopatra, Ptolemy XIV and Caesarion visited Rome in the summer of 46 BC. The Egyptian queen resided in one of Caesar\u2019s country houses. The relationship between Cleopatra and Caesar was obvious to the Roman people and it was a scandal because the Roman dictator was already married to Calpurnia Pisonis. But Caesar even erected a golden statue of Cleopatra represented as Isis in the temple of Venus Genetrix (the mythical ancestress of Caesar\u2019s family), which was situated at the Forum Julium. The Roman orator Cicero said in his preserved letters that he hated the foreign queen. Cleopatra and her entourage were in Rome when Caesar was assassinated on 15 March 44 BC. She returned with her relatives to Egypt. When Ptolemy XIV died \u2013 allegedly poisoned by his older sister \u2013 Cleopatra made Caesarion her co-regent and successor and gave him the epithets Theos Philopator Philometor.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Caesar\u2019s assassination in 44 BC, she aligned with\u00a0Marcus Antonius\u00a0in opposition to Caesar\u2019s legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known as Augustus). With Antony, she bore the twins Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios, and another son, Ptolemy Philadelphus (her unions with her brothers had produced no children.) After losing the Battle of Actium to Octavian\u2019s forces, Antony committed suicide. Cleopatra followed suit, according to tradition killing herself by means of an asp bite on August 12, 30 BC. She was briefly outlived by Caesarion, who was declared pharaoh by his supporters, but soon killed on Octavian\u2019s orders. Egypt became the Roman province of Aegyptus.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information contact the<\/span>\u00a0Vampire Council Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Now the real history is slightly different. Cleopatra had learned early in her career that if anyone was to rule Egypt they would need to align themselves with the\u00a0Medjai Clan. Cleopatra, after the death of Caesar, sent word to\u00a0Ahmet Bey, and he sent\u00a0Netjerikhet\u00a0and\u00a0Nefertiri\u00a0to talk to her. While there Rick became good friends with Marc Anthony, to the point of traveling with him while he was away from Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rumors had come back to Egpyt that Marc had committed suicide, and in a fit of depression Cleopatra had tried to kill herself. Evy had found her in time, and Turned her, telling her Marcus was still alive. But it was too late to save \u2018Cleopatra\u2019 as the word had got out that both had died, and politics took its course.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vampire Council: Council Member   The identity of Cleopatra\u2019s mother is unknown, but she is generally believed to be Cleopatra V Tryphaena of Egypt, the sister or cousin and wife of Ptolemy XII Auletes, or possibly another Ptolemaic family member who was the daughter of Ptolemy X and Cleopatra Berenice …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[454,466],"tags":[447,239],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-introduction","category-vampire-council","tag-inspiration-block","tag-the-vampire-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-6fF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17148,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-nearchus\/","url_meta":{"origin":24035,"position":0},"title":"Sylum Inspiration: Nearchus","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"November 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Sanguen: Lead Hunter Nearchus was one of the officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. 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