Caesar, wanted money to bankroll his return to power in Rome, he needed Egypt to pay Auletes's obligation. After four months of fighting between Caesar's outmanned army and Ptolemy XIII's, Roman reinforcements came, forcing Ptolemy to abandon Alexandria and drowning in the Nile River. Entering Alexandria as an unpopular victor, Caesar reinstated Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy XIV to the throne(then 13 years old). Caesar stayed in Egypt with Cleopatra for a while, and she gave birth to Ptolemy Caesar in 47 B.C. Caesarian, or Little Caesar, was thw Egyptians's name for him, as he was thought to be Caesar's child. Cleopatra traveled to Rome with Ptolemy XIV and Caesarion in 46-45 B.C. to see Caesar, who had arrived earlier. Cleopatra returned to Egypt after Caesar's assination in March 44 B.C. Ptolemy XIV was assasinated soon after (perhaps by Cleopatra's spies), and the three-year old Caesorian was declared co-regent with his mother as Ptolemy XV. At this point, Cleopatra had identified herself with the goddess of Isis, Osiris sister-wife and Horus mother.
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THE LEGENDARY CLEOPATRA
Historical FictionCleopatra VII Philopator was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. A member of Ptolemy dynasty, she was a descendant of it's founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
