However, Cleopatra's father and grandfather were unlike their predecessors, according to Islam Issa, a professor of literature and history and the only Egyptian who appears in the show.

How did she come to rule Egypt? When her father died in 51 B.C. Cleopatra, then 18, was plunged into a controversy over which of Ptolemy XII’s children should rule Egypt.

Cleopatra’s father, Ptolemy XII, was undoubtedly of Macedonian-Greek descent, but her mother’s identity remains a mystery. Islam Issa, a professor of literature and history who appears in the ...

After six successors, the descent reached Cleopatra’s father, meaning that Cleopatra “was no more than eight generations away from being pure Macedonian Greek,” Mr. Roller said in an article published ...

Transitioning from her law practice in 2005, she has dedicated her life to archaeology, spurred by a debate with her father about Cleopatra’s legacy. Martinez believes Cleopatra, who embodied ...

Cleopatra’s father, Ptolemy XII, was a member of the family that conquered Egypt over 200 years earlier. He was routinely referred to as an illegitimate child.

There she had at least one son, Ptolemaios, who followed his father onto the throne, but came to a nasty end under the Roman Emperor Caligula in 40 A.D. Cleopatra Selene’s own death ...

She was the 7th Cleopatra Known simply as Cleopatra (Greek: “Famous in Her Father,” 51 – August 12, 30 B.C.), the last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt was actually named Cleopatra VII Thea ...

Cleopatra's father had thrown in his lot with Pompey the Great. Good fortune seemed eternally to shine on that brilliant Roman general, at least until Julius Caesar dealt him a crushing defeat in ...

Like Cleopatra, who was descended from the Macedonian general Ptolemy I Soter on her father’s side and unknown ancestors on her mother’s, Cleopatra Selene most likely did not identify as white ...

Cleopatra's father had thrown in his lot with Pompey the Great. Good fortune seemed eternally to shine on that brilliant Roman general, at least until Julius Caesar dealt him a crushing defeat in ...