![]() Now having been declared king, Caesar prepares his a conquest of Parthia. Although they are hesitant to do so, the senate eventually grants Caesar's request. Believing that he should hold the same status as his Egyptian lover, Caesar demands he be declared King of Rome. In front of his people (including wife Calpurnia), Cleopatra declares that Caesar is her son's father, publicly forcing his hand, and demanding that her son be allowed to rule both Egypt and Rome invoking the consternation of Brutus and Cassius. With her, she brings the couple's infant son. A son is born to the queen roughly nine months later he is named Caesarion, in honor of his father.īack in Rome, Caesar invites Cleopatra to stay at one of his villas, just outside Rome. Unbeknownst to Caesar, Cleopatra is pregnant with his child. Caesar comes under fire from the Roman Senate and his critic Brutus due to a crisis in Pontus. Cleopatra and Caesar take a 2-month journey down the Nile aboard one of the Queen's elegant ships. Cleopatra has Arsinoe strangled in her cell. Arsinoe is captured while Ptolemy is killed when his carriage overturns. Arsinoe and Ptolemy are pursued by Roman forces. Caesar then orders the death of the unscrupulous Prime Minister Pothinus, prompting Ptolemy and Arsinoe to flee and return with their army to drive their sister out of Alexandria.Ī battle breaks out between the Romans and the Egyptian forces, and in the process, Alexandria's great library is burned to the ground. The two spend the night together, and the next morning, Cleopatra and Ptolemy are betrothed to marry by Caesar. Cleopatra smuggles herself into the palace wrapped in a carpet a gift from her to Caesar. Roman general Julius Caesar comes to Alexandria to collect Egypt's tax debt. Cleopatra VII, Egypt's rightful Queen, is in exile, while her sister Arsinoe and brother, Ptolemy have stolen the throne. ( July 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Judy Farr, Martin Hitchcock and Frank Walsh were nominated for an Emmy in 1999 for outstanding art direction for a miniseries or a movie for their work on Cleopatra. Cleopatra was shown first on the ABC television network in two parts on two consecutive evenings in May 1999 and then released on videotape and DVD. Produced by Hallmark Entertainment, it stars Leonor Varela as the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, Timothy Dalton as Julius Caesar, Billy Zane as Mark Antony, Rupert Graves as Octavius, Sean Pertwee as Brutus and Bruce Payne as Cassius. Cleopatra is a 1999 miniseries adaptation of Margaret George's 1997 historical fiction novel The Memoirs of Cleopatra. ![]()
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