The Early Life Of Cleopatra | Ancient Egypt's Last Pharaoh

The Early Life Of Cleopatra | Ancient Egypt's Last Pharaoh

How did Cleopatra became one of the most influential and powerful women of the ancient world?

In this film three leading Egyptologists explore how Cleopatra became one of the most influential and powerful women of the ancient world.

We trace how Cleopatra's learning and intelligence enabled her to gain control of her own Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt; skilfully and ruthlessly overcoming her own family and manipulating Egyptian politics and religion to her own advantage. We discover the influence that the magnificent city of Alexandria exerted over the eastern Mediterranean and how Rome's growing power impinged on Egypt. Cleopatra played a difficult and skilful game negotiating relations with Rome, engaging both diplomatically and personally first with Julius Caesar and then Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Our experts consider how Cleopatra's remarkable personality enabled her to play such a key role in the first century BCE.

The film uses imagery from the worlds of art and motion pictures, as well as key Egyptian artefacts and locations, to investigate the representation and story of this remarkable and much misunderstood leader - unpicking the fact from the myth.

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[williamrobinson]

The strong emphasis on Cleopatra's place in the Ptolomeic Dynasty is key. Well presented. Nice one! ✨👍

[westieweardogkilts]

So intriguing, thank you for the family tree, it makes it all less confusing.

[rachelwyatt]

I love this content. I paused my Netflix and signed up to your channel.

[MrFreezook]

Mind blown. Thx for sharing the story in such a comprehensive way. I finally can understand it better and have it somehow grasped. Can't wait to hear the rest.

[Angelfeather]

Love this channel and loved this post. Such a pity that the music was a bit too loud in places and I've struggled focusing on the story...

[cyankirkpatrick]

I learned a lot about her and I got a lot of respect for her and also I feel bad that she made some bad some bad decisions that ultimately cost her everything. But history is filled with the same things.

[breck]

i recently found ur channel and i love ur videos! would u consider using human-generated captions instead of autogenerated ones?? the automatic captions r kind of hard to follow as someone with auditory processing issues and i imagine its much more difficult for those who r hard of hearing.

[franciscojose]

Applaud for you no doubt one very important channel in information for us tank you

[MickAngelhere]

The music is a bit too much at times in an otherwise great video

[MrBongoking]

If you’re going to do this, it would be nice to flag up early on that it’s an excerpt, rather than the whole thing.

[marthag]

Cleopatra spoke 5 or more languages fluently, welcomed all nationalities to her country, was the richest ruler in the world during her reign and embraced the history of Egypt by following and styling herself as Isis. She was envied and loathed by the Male Rulers of the period and they actively conspired to bring an end to her sovereignty.

[Rampagedd]

Ptolomey managed to take over Egypt by claiming to be Alexander the greats secret brother, after his death (son of Philip the 2nd, alexanders dad) this is the only reason he pulled it off. As Alexander was seen as a God to the Egyptians. It worked, he then stole Alexander's body (which was due to be taken back to macedon) and had it taken to Alexandria, ptolomey was then buried with Alexander at one point I believe?) A brilliant lie that made him and kept his line of Pharoahs to cleopatra, a lot of her success is because of the romans running the showing. These were sitting pharaohs under romes control, hence Caeser etc being there when trouble developed. I'd say the backstory to Cleo is more interesting! Delve at your leisure. Eventually Caesers nephew (Octavias) went to war against Mark Anthony who had had kids with Cleo, and they committed suicide when Octavias and Caesers old legions came knocking for revenge to Caesers murders. Fascinating
Forgive the spelling :)

[sondraW]

TY for posting but none of this is new infor. I thought there was new information abt her early life. Title is misleading.

[srothbardt]

Who wrote the song that goes “Cleo-patera”. ??

[DryNox]

3:00 Ptolemy
4:00 Egypt = client state of Rome
7:00 nightmare of a family
10:00 Cyprus annexed by Rome 58 BC

[sweepsp]

Very interesting but would be better without the crap music

[FrydaWolff]

Love you guys, but the dialog mix levels on this are all over the place. Pick a decibel and stick to it, audio person! Oof the non-stop music makes it even worse. Pick your moments, my guy.

[PriceyTomato]

*Cleopatra was born in around 69 BC*

Lit Intro 👌🏻

[alternativetext]

Pompey goes to Egypt to try to make an alliance with Ptolemy but the pharaoh kills him in order to make an alliance with ceasar which backfires and cleopatra ends up back on the throne. I’m 99% sure that’s what happens next

[meejinhuang]

Just so everyone is clear. Cleopatra was of Greek descent.