.: Special Edition - The Coronation of Ptolemy XIII and Cleopatra

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- Special Edition -

The CORONATION

OF PTOLEMY XIII AND CLEOPATRA

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Part 2: THE MILTARY PARADE

Summary of the previous part: Pharaoh Ptolemy XII has just died.

He had allowed his eldest daughter, Cleopatra, to share his power.

But according to Ptolemaic custom, a woman cannot rule alone. That is why two Pharaohs are enthroned at the same time. The young Ptolemy, aged 10, had to marry Cleopatra, who is 8 years his senior. The two young Pharaohs have just been named Living Gods by the Royal Priests who performed the rites of transfer of power: They received their magical emblems that allow them to be these Gods: The Skhemty, a headdress formed by the interlocking of two distinct crowns, each symbolizing Upper and Lower Egypt.

A crook-shaped scepter that represents divine magical power and allows the Pharaoh to lead his people like a shepherd. A scepter shaped like a flail, an agricultural tool, symbolizes protection and fertility.

They are now known as Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and Pharaoh Cleopatra VII.

The ceremony to become a full-fledged Pharaoh continues...

Discover in this season how Julius Caesar will

help Cleopatra against these two conspirators:

- SEASON 2 -

- CAESAR'S WRATH -

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Find out in this season the "help"

that Pharaoh will give Pompey during

his escape from Julius Caesar:

- SEASON 3 -

- THE EGYPTIAN WAR - EPISODE 1 -

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- SEASON 2: Caesar's Wrath -

- SEASON 2 -

- CAESAR'S WRATH -

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- SEASON 3: The Egyptian War -

- SEASON 3 -

- THE EGYPTIAN WAR - EPISODE 1 -

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A bit of history: In 332 BC, Egypt, then under Persian rule, welcomed Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, as a liberator. The hero of Greek antiquity quickly resumed his journey through the Persian Empire. After the assassination of Alexander's posthumous son, one of his generals and most loyal companions inherited the kingdom of Egypt in 305 BC. Ptolemy I (305-282 BC) thus became the first ruler of the Lagid (named after his father Lagos) or Ptolemaic dynasty.

His successors, who ruled Egypt for three centuries, were astute enough to adopt the customs of the country in order to blend in and gain acceptance: they married their brothers and sisters, appeased the gods, adopted traditional Egyptian attire for major ceremonies, built temples, and were crowned as Pharaohs. They thus appeared, if not as Egyptians, at least as… the most Egyptian of the Greeks. The Ptolemies established this Hellenistic culture, of which they were the heirs, notably through the founding of the Library of Alexandria at the beginning of the 3rd century BC.

Cleopatra inherited this dual culture. Born around 69 BC, she was the daughter of Ptolemy XII, who reigned over Egypt for thirty years. She ascended the throne at the age of eighteen. As in the Ptolemaic dynasty, a woman could not rule alone, so she married her half-brother, Ptolemy XIII. In Alexandria, violence was constant: to gain the throne, people did not hesitate to commit petty crimes within the family. Cleopatra herself had one of her half-sisters killed, and her husband conveniently drowned after opposing her.

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