


Julius Caesar and Cleopatra: How they met A coin with the head of Cleopatra, Egypt. She had one child by Julius Caesar, Ptolemy XV Caesarion was born around 44 B.C.

Cleopatra lived openly with Julius Caesar in Rome, and her statue was in Rome's Temple of Venus. Caesarion, also known as Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, was born in 47 BC to Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman dictator Julius Caesar. When, at the Battle of Philippi in 42 bce, Caesar’s assassins were routed, Mark Antony became the heir apparent of Caesar’s authorityor so it seemed, for Caesar’s great-nephew and personal heir, Octavian, was but a sickly boy. In 47 B.C., Cleopatra VII of Egypt gave birth to a son she claimed belonged to Julius Caesar Ptolemy XV Caesar, called 'Caesarion', was killed at the age of 17 by Caesar's adopted son, Octavius. Her only real love seemed to have been Julius Caesar (48-44), who she felt was her match in power and ambition. In this article of Historicaleve, we will focus on making a summary of the History of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, who starred in one of the most important moments in the respective end stages of their different countries, as Cleopatra was the queen of Hellenistic Egypt, which would fall in the hands of Octavius in the year 30 BC While Julius Caesar was the figure that would end the Roman Republic and although this was killed by senators on March 15 of 44 BC left everything done for Octavius to end up being the emperor. Soon after her return to Alexandria, in 44 bce, Cleopatra’s coruler, Ptolemy XIV, died.Cleopatra now ruled with her infant son, Ptolemy XV Caesar. As the last true pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra married two of her own brothers (as was custom in the royal family), won a Civil War against Ptolemy XIII, was mistress to and fathered a son (Caesarion, Ptolemy XIV) with Julius Caesar, and finally met and married her love, Mark Antony.
