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Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter

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Octavian's Assassination of Cleopatra Selenie

Her father committed suicide first and if he hadn't he probably would have been executed or at least given the means of taking his own life quite actively. Her mother is imprisoned and she tries to take her own life on several occasions but is stopped by Octavian's soldiers because he wants to exhibit her in his triumph. The hereditary priest of the god Tarr who may have been related, may have been a cousin to the royal family, dies in suspicious circumstances just as the Romans are entering Alexandria. And so there is this huge upheaval, there is a lot of scary stuff happening. For ten year old children, her and her twin brother and a six-year-old, her youngest brother

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