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XIII are the ones that seem to have the upper hand at the time that Pompey is running away to Alexandria, which is the seat of power, a city established by Alexander the Great, and the seat of power in Ptolemaic Egypt. Supporters of Ptolemy XIII, you can imagine, this is onlyĪ 10-year-old, young kid, it's really the adults thatĪre probably running the show, but the supporters of Ptolemy But, you can imagine, thisĬo-rule thing doesn't really work out that well, andĬivil war has broken out in Ptolemaic Egypt, with the

Julius caesar and cleopatra movie#

In popular culture, the movie Cleopatra, when people talk aboutĬleopatra, this is the Cleopatra they're talking about. Old, and this is a picture of Cleopatra, and this One that he wanted to co-rule, Cleopatra, was 18 years One of them, Ptolemy,Ĭreatively named Ptolemy XIII, was 10 years old. Of his children to co-rule Ptolemaic Egypt, and they were young. But Ptolemy XII, when he dies in 51 BCE, dies in 51 BCE, in his will he wants two That they essentially bribed their way to maintain their Powerful than the Roman Empire, and the historical accounts say And so this is PtolemaicĮgypt right over here, which was significantly less Great passed, once he died, one of his generals, Ptolemy, Ptolemy I, established a Ptolemaic Empire over Egypt, established Ptolemaic Egypt. When he conquered Persia in the 330s BCE, he also conquered Egypt. You might remember that Alexander the Great, It was called PtolemaicĮgypt, and even this guy was called Ptolemy, because, There on that timeline, and right about here on this timeline, Ptolemy XII, who was the Julius Caesar's enemies are now defeated, and Which is right over here in central Greece. Pompey several times, and then, finally, in 48 BCE, he is able to decisively beat Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus, One would've expected them to cross the winter in the Adriatic, and to break the blockade of Pompey, 'cause Pompey controlled the navy. Winter, which was a bit of a surprise attack, because no It's a pretty interesting story in its own right. Leads several of his legions off across the Adriatic, and Puts him in charge of, he puts him in charge in Italy. Who was one of his generals in the Gaelic Wars, he He puts his second inĬommand, Marcus Antonius, often known as Mark Antony, That it's only a matter of time before Pompey's forcesĪnd these senators return and retake Rome. This isn't the end of it, that a civil war has begun, Though he's now in control of Rome, he knows that Senators who were in opposition to Julius Caesar, go along with Pompey. And so you can imagine,Ī lot of the senators, especially the powerful So Pompey takes his forces and retreatsĪcross the Adriatic to regroup, with the intent of coming back and retaking Rome. Is beatable right now, he wasn't aware thatĬaesar only had one legion, maybe there was a trick up But Pompey says, you know what, I'm not so sure if Caesar

Say, okay, let's get Pompey, the famous general, who used to be part of Caesar's triumvirateīut had switched sides, to engage with Caesar. If I were just to return to Rome, they already are threatened by me, who knows what they're going to do to me? So he decides to cross the Rubicon and enter Rome. Position, leave your army, and return to Rome? Well Caesar is sitting over here saying, well, that doesn't really Significant military victories in Gaul, and they said, all right, Caesar, why don't you just leave your Populist, charismatic figure, he had just had these His term as proconsul, the senators in Rome were afraid of him. Left off in the last video, we saw Julius Caesar hadĬonquered Gaul as proconsul.