Cleopatra
Person
Cleopatra appears in the dynastic conflict reported at the end of Civil War and in the settlement narrated by Alexandrian War. The continuation describes her as Caesar’s adherent and pairs her with the younger royal brother. These passages establish her position in this corpus, not a complete biography or an independent assessment of her rule.
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Editorial evidence: Civil War 3.103 · Alexandrian War 33
Civil War 3.103
Caesar
… There by chance was King Ptolomaeus, a boy in years, waging war with large forces against his sister Cleopatra, whom a few months before he had expelled from the throne by the help of his relations and friends. …
Alexandrian War 33
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
… The elder of the two boys— the late king—being now no more, Caesar assigned the kingdom to the younger one and to Cleopatra, the elder of the two daughters, who had remained his loyal adherent whereas Arsinoe, the younger daughter, in whose name, as we have shewn, Ganymedes had long been exercising an unbridled sway, he determined to remove from the realm, to prevent any renewed dissensions coming into being among factious folk before the dominion of the royal pair could be consolidated by the passage of time. …
Civil War 3.107
Caesar
… Meanwhile, thinking that the controversies of the princes affected the Roman people and himself as consul, and concerned his functions all the more because in his previous consulship an alliance had been formed with the elder Ptolomaeus both by legislative enactment and by decree of the senate, he declares that it is his pleasure that King Ptolomaeus and his sister Cleopatra should disband the armies that they controlled, and should settle their disputes by process of law before himself rather than by armed force between themselves.
Explicit source relations
- Ptolemy, father of Cleopatra and the royal siblings — father of — Cleopatra · Dossier · Civil War 3.108 · Civil War 3.103
- Cleopatra — siblings in dynastic conflict — Ptolemy, young king and Cleopatra’s opponent · Dossier · Civil War 3.103
- Cleopatra — paired as rulers — The younger royal brother installed with Cleopatra · Dossier · Alexandrian War 33