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Cleopatra With Caesar In Alexandria

Cleopatra , Queen of Egypt , feasting on Quails and honeycakes,dressed in glorious splendour. She minted new coins with her picture on them "Mark them Cleopatra Philopater, after the King!" Garlands of flowers , decorated in gold ,luxurious purple silk, rooms perfumed in roses, celebrates her victory with the Roman leader , Julius Caesar. Bald as an egg and old enough to be her father. Few women could resist his sexiness + charms. Her brother ,Ptolemy thought not and surrounded Alexandria with a sqad of twenty thousand troops. Months went by ,Caesars Roman army re-gained control........Ptolemy Xlll , weighed down by his suit of golden armour drowned in the waters of the Nile. In Alexandria she put his golden armour on display.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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