Cleopatra

The name of several wives and daughters of different Ptolemies. The first Cleopatra was a Syrian Prince , who married Ptolemy Epiphanes (V.). Cleopatra II. seems to have enjoyed a co-regency with her brother-husband Philometor. Indeed the six or seven queens of the name all seem to have had almost equal power with their husbands. The great Cleopatra was the VIth or VIIth, according to different historians. She has left evidence of her reign on the walls of the temple of Dendera, where her portrait may be seen, together with that of her son Caesar i on.