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\n Cleopatra VII is like the most famous Queen of Egypt in all of ancient history – and she’s not even Egyptian! Cleopatra was the last in a long line of Ptolemies, a Greek family, that portrayed themselves as pharaohs and ruled from Egypt proper. During the 1st century BCE, however, the Mediter
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\n ean. Egypt, and Cleopatra, couldn’t help but be caught up in the hurricane that was the burgeoning Roman Empire.\n <\/p>\n

\n Because of the mixing of cultures during this time, the
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\n e about the life of Cleopatra mainly come from Greek and Roman writers, rather than Cleopatra herself. In this module, I want you to think about the the reliability and biases of different types of sou
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\n e also get a 1st-hand account from a Roman source – Julius C
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\n Finally, we have in-depth references to Cleopatra’s life in a biography by a Greco-Roman historian writing 200 years after her death.\n <\/p>\n

\n For this assignment, I want you to do two things. First, I want you to spend 150+ words describing what we can learn about Cleopatra from each of the three sets of sources (Egyptian,
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