Against Caesar in Egypt began a revolt that Caesar was able to suppress. The king Ptolemy died. Cleopatra, formally combined with any other brother, their young Ptolemy XIV, actually became the ruler of Egypt under the undivided Roman protectorate, which guarantees were left in Egypt, three of the Legion.
Cleopatra bore Caesar a son, named Caesarion. In the summer of '46 BC Caesar is cleopatra in Rome (formally - for an alliance between Rome and Egypt). cleopatra was isolated villa of Caesar in his gardens on the banks of the Tiber. I went even a rumor that Caesar is going to take his second wife, Cleopatra, and to move the capital to Alexandria. Caesar ordered the gilded statue of Cleopatra's place at the altar of the Mother of Venus (Venus as a kind of mythical ancestor Julian, to which he belonged). But Caesar did not dare to officially recognize his son Caesarion.
Caesar was assassinated in a conspiracy 44 March 15 BC. Oe. A month later, in mid-April, cleopatra left Rome in July and arrived in Alexandria. Soon after, he died 14 years old Ptolemy XIV. According to Josephus, he was poisoned by his sister: cleopatra gave birth to a son co-ruler of the formal. In this situation, maturing her brother was completely superfluous.
In Rome, the civil war between Caesar's assassins, Brutus and Cassius on the one hand, and on the other hand - his heirs Antony and Octavian. Antony and Octavian defeated. In the division of the Roman world, produced after the defeat of the Republicans, Anthony went to the East. Anthony, who is planning a war with the Parthians, arrives in Egypt to enlist the help of Egypt. cleopatra at the time they met was 29 years old, Anthony - 40. At a meeting with Anthony Queen arrived, according to Plutarch, "on a boat with a gilded stern, purple sails and silvered oars, which moved under the tune of flutes, elegantly
was combined with a whistle and flute clash cittern. The queen was resting under the shade of a gold-embroidered dress of Aphrodite, with what the painters portray her, and on both sides of the bed stood a boy with large fans - like Eros in the pictures. Similarly, the most beautiful slaves were disguised Nereids and Haritha and who stood at the stern oars, who the ropes. Wonderful incense ascended from innumerable censers and flowed along the banks. "Anthony was completely captivated by Cleopatra. Their affair lasted for more than 10 years until their deaths. cleopatra had three children by Antony.
 

To 32 BC relations between the former allies - Antony andOctavian - finally turned from friendly to hostile. Antony, cleopatra who was distributing the children of Cleopatra's Roman sister),and passionate break with his official wife Octavius ​​(Octavian'slands, began to look in the eyes of the Romans as a traitor. In the battleof Actium September 2 31 to n. Oe. fleet of Antony and cleopatra defeated, vanquished have returned to Egypt and tried to flee to India, but when you try to drag the trial dragged across the Isthmus of Suez to the Arabs burned. Escape from the plan was abandoned.
When Octavian reached Egypt, Antony committed suicide by throwing himself on his sword. cleopatra tried to seduce Octavian, or at least agree with him, but spell 39-year-old queen at this time were powerless. Octavian wanted to take cleopatra to Rome as a prisoner to participate in his triumph, however, cleopatra committed suicide. According to the most common version, cleopatra died from a snake bite, snake in the room but was not found. On the other, more plausible version of cleopatra poisoned herself with poison. This version says a quick death of Cleopatra, that she suffered shortly before his death poisons on prisoners, and finally, that, together with cleopatra found the two dead servants (it is doubtful that a snake slew three people). Octavian tried unsuccessfully to revive cleopatra with psillov, an exotic tribe, who could suck the venom is harmless to themselves.

Alexander Cabanel. cleopatra feels poisons on prisoners