Cleopatra the Last Pharaoh

Despite being Egypt's last pharaoh, Cleopatra the VII (Seventh) or simply Cleopatra was actually of Greek descent as her family could be traced back to one of Alexander the Great's generals Ptolemy I Soter. This meant that she had Greek ancestry due to Alexander the Great's invasion of Egypt in 332BCE. Cleopatra originally ruled alongside her father Ptolemy XII Auletes before ruling solo. When she had a child with the Roman leader Julius Caesar (the same one was stabbed on the Ides of March), the child Ptolemy Caesar AKA Caesarion (Little Caesar) co-ruled Egypt with his mother from 44BCE until 30BCE. Cleo is known for her connection to Mark Anthony who was a Roman politician who didn't like the fact that Caesar's legal heir was Augustus (the namesake for the 8th month of the year August and his full name was Gaius Julious Caesar Octavianus). Mark Anthony and Cleopatra had three children together including fraternal twins Cleopatra Serene II and Alexander Helios and another son born through a single birth named Ptolemy Philadelphus. Known for her incredible beauty, she is said to have bathed in donkey milk to preserve her beauty with nearly 700 donkeys being the providers for her daily bath. Following the Battle of Actium against the army of Augustus, Mark Anthony took his own life and Cleopatra did the same on 12 August 30BCE (or a few days before hand) by having a poisonous snake kill her. Caesarion died 10 days later, being too young and easily overpowered by Octavian who later declared Egypt a Roman province which saw him become Emeperor Augustus. The romance of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra has been retold through plays like Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra and films like the 1963 film Cleopatra which starred Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. Cle has also been depicted in cartoons, mostly educational cartoons for children except for the adult animated series Clone High (created by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of The Lego Movie) where she was portrayed as a cloned and teenage version of her historic self.