Cleopatra (In Our Time)
50 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Cleopatra. The last pharaoh to rule Egypt, Cleopatra was a woman of intelligence and charisma, later celebrated as a great beauty. During an eventful life she was ousted from her throne and later restored to it with the help of her lover Julius Caesar. A later relationship with another Roman statesman, Mark Antony - and Cl
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Around 50 BCE
- Reign of Augustus (27 BCE)
- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Saint Paul (5)
- Reign of Tiberius (14)
- Roman Empire (27 BCE)