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I chose to write my "Significant Woman" paper on Egypt’s last pharaoh, . When I began my report, I knew very little about , except that she was the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony of Rome. I wondered what impacts ....

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... after Alexander the Great’s death. The Ptolemy family was of Macedonian decent, not Egyptian. , more precisely, VII, was the third daughter of Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos "Auletes", who began his rule of Egypt in 80 BC. VII’s mother could possibly have been V Tryphaena, who either died or disappeared in 68 BC, right after VII’s birth in 69 BC. VII had two older sisters, VI and Berenice IV, and one younger sister, Arsinoe IV. She also had two younger brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV. Ptolemy XII ruled until his death in 51 BC, with only a brief interruption in 58 BC when his second eldest daughter, Berenice IV, ...