Cleopatra And Antony

Question 0

Cleopatra’s Rulership

Answer 0

Ptolomy XIV died in 44Bc
Cleopatra ruled with Caesarion
Re-issued coinage with her own name

Question 1

Cleopatra’s return to Egypt

Answer 1

44-41BC
Set about organising Egypt on a sound economic basis
Worked efficiently to maintain the food supply
Developed trade

Question 2

Her extended lands

Answer 2

Extended her control to Jericho and Nabatea

Gained valuable balsam and bitumen trade

Question 3

Her role in Religion

Answer 3

Represented herself as Isis

Caesarion as Horus

Question 4

Her help to the Triumvirs

Answer 4

Sent 4 legions to help Dolabella against Cassius
-They joined Cassius
She took a fleet to help Antony and Octavian ferry troops across to Greece
-storms forced them to return to Egypt

Question 5

Antony asked Cleopatra to meet him at Tarsus

Answer 5

To answer to the accusation that she had helped the conspirators
Antony needed money and support

Question 6

Plutarch- Antony’s love for Cleopatra

Answer 6

So this I was Antony’s charecter when his final disaster- his love for Cleopatra-overtook him. This love stirred up to near-madness those many passions which were up till now hidden, or kept under control. It now removed and destroyed any useful or saving qualities which could have held out against it. In this way he was captured by her.

Question 7

Cleopatra’s arrival

Answer 7

She arrived in her royal barge
Seen as Aphrodite meeting Dionysus
Antony could not match the splendour of Cleopatra’s extravagant display at dinner