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I don't know how true this is or where I originally heard it but I heard that Cleopatra could actually trace her lineage to Alexander the Great. Has anyone else heard this?
I always thought that Cleopatra could only trace her lineage through the Ptolemies, of which the original Ptolemy was a contemporary of Alxander and one of his generals who got Egypt after Alexander's death.
That might be what I'm thinking of. I believe she used that information to solidify herself as a legitimate ruler in the Roman eyes.
I know she used her lineage to help her entice Caesar. Her very legitimacy made a union between the two a plus for him and his aspirations of establishing a dynasty back at Rome.
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