Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter
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Cleopatra's Motherhood
Cleopatra's four children are not one aspect of her life that is particularly talked up. We don't know very much about their day to day life because ancient authors aren't interested in childhood. Cleopatra the seventh was probably very education herself, she speaks many languages and would have interacted with leading intellectual figures. Her childhood takes an abrupt turn when both her parents take their own lives in 30 BC. What does this mean to Cleopatra, Selena? Is she at this point in some danger from Rome?
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