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Cleopatra
30 BCE - Alexandria
Performance, ruin, and the politics of being seen.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
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Alexandria, Egypt · 30 BCE to 21 BCE
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Cleopatra and the fall of Ptolemaic Egypt
30 BCE · Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria's defeat closes the last great Hellenistic court and folds Egypt into Roman power.
Cleopatra's fall also clarifies the kind of victor Augustus is becoming.
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Cleopatra
30 BCE - Alexandria
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Performance, ruin, and the politics of being seen.
The last pharaoh of Egypt watches her kingdom dissolve, and sets down what Rome will never understand about power.
