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EGYPT - eopatra Reign Roman Conquest — Part TwR - TOBY-WILKINSON-THE-LAST-DYNASTY
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eopatra Reign Roman Conquest — Part TwR
Toby Wilkinson, author of The Last DynastyR Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, details the internal feuds, incestuous marriages, and political ascension of powerful Ptolemaic queens like Cleopatra III and Cleopatra VII. Following strategic alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, civil wars and Roman intervention culminated in Cleopatra’s death and Octavian’s annexation of Egypt into the Roman Empire. (9)
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