Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Cleopatra´s family
- Ptolemy XII Auletes
- married Cleopatra V (she may have died during childbirth)
- had six children
- depended on Rome to keep his throne
- bribed Caesar an Pompey with 6000 talents and
bribed Gabinus with 10000 talents
- began his reign in 80BC
- died in 51 BC
- exiled in 55-55 BC
- name means flute player
- was weak and self-indulgent
- Berenice IV
- overthrew her father in 58 BC
- was executed by her father in 55 BC
- Arisone
- during the civil war, she declared herself pharaoh of egypt
- she was captured and paraded in a triumph by Caesar
- she was murdered by cleopatra
- Ptolemy XIII
- co-ruled with cleopatra in 51 BC
- supported the eunuch pothinus
- tried to overthrow Cleopatra in 48 BC
- drowned in the Nile on 13th of January 47 BC
- murdered Pompey the Great to win Caesar´s favour, this failed
- Ptolemy XIV
- married Cleopatra in 47BC
- reigned in name only
- Cleopatra had him murdered in 44BC
- Ptolemy XV Caesarion
- name means little Caesar
- Co-ruled with Cleopatra when he was three years old
- was in rome when Caesar was murdered
- born on 23rd of june 47 BC
- executed on 12th of august 30 BC by Octavian
- in 43 BC Cornelius Dolabella recognises
the boy-king on behalf of the senate
- after 37 BC he is no longer mentioned in official
documents, probably because Cleopatra wants to
continue her dynasty through the children of Mark Antony
- in 34 BC he is adopted by Mark Antony