Cleopatra: Egypt’s Last Sovereign Queen

Have you ever stood for something so deeply—your people, your faith, your very identity—that

empires conspired to erase you? Meet Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, the last active

ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt: a queen who spoke nine languages, commanded warships

at Actium, revived ancient pharaonic rites as the living goddess Isis,

and outmaneuvered Caesar and Antony not through seduction—but statecraft. Betrayed by her

brother Ptolemy XIII, exiled to the Nile Delta at twenty, slandered by Octavian’s

propaganda as a “foreign enchantress,” she never wavered from her sacred duty: to preserve

Egypt’s sovereignty in the face of Rome’s hunger for conquest. From the courts of Alexandria to