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cleopatra, (Greek: “Famous in Her Father”)in full Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (“Cleopatra the Father-Loving Goddess”), (born 70/69 BCE—died August 30 BCE, Alexandria), Egyptian queen, famous in history and drama as the lover of Julius Caesar and later the wife of Mark Antony. She became queen on the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 BCE and ruled successively with her two brothers Ptolemy XIII (51–47) and Ptolemy XIV (47–44) and her son Ptolemy XV Caesar (44–30). After the Roman armies of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) defeated their combined forces, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, and Egypt fell under Roman domination. Cleopatra actively influenced Roman politics at a crucial period, and she came to represent, as did no other woman of antiquity, the prototype of the romantic femme fatale

Cleopatra is an adventure novel written by H. Rider Haggard. The book is told from the point of view of Harmachis, an Egyptian priest in charge of overthrowing Cleopatra. H. Rider Haggard was a prominent English writer near the turn of the 20th century. Haggard was also involved in reforming agriculture throughout the British Empire. Today he is best known for influential adventure and lost world novels such as King Solomon's Mines and She: A History of Adventure.

The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of this bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Romans, and restore Egypt to its golden era.

The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of this bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Romans, and restore Egypt to its golden era.

A novel written by the author H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines and She. This book was first printed in 1889. The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the priesthood of Isis. The main character, Harmachis (the living descendant of this bloodline), is charged by the priesthood with overthrowing the supposed impostor - Cleopatra - driving out the Romans, and restoring Egypt to its golden era.

"Cleopatra", the most ambitious of Haggard’s romances, presents a vigorous picture of Egypt under the rule of the wonderful Queen.The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of this bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Romans, and restore Egypt to its golden era.

About Haggard:Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, toSir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and EllaDoveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children.He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshireto study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike hisolder brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, heended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. This was becausehis father, who regarded him as somebody who was notgoing to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintainhis expensive private education. After failing his army entranceexam he was sent to a private ‘crammer’ in London to preparefor the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which inthe end he never sat. Instead Haggard’s father sent him toAfrica in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to theLieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. It was in thisrole that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcementof the British annexation of the Boer Republic ofthe Transvaal. In fact, Haggard raised the Union Flag and wasforced to read out much of the proclamation following the lossof voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. As ayoung man, Haggard fell deeply in love with Lilith Jackson,whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employmentin South Africa. In 1878 he became Registrar of the High Courtin the Transvaal, but when he sent his father a letter tellinghim that he intended to return to England in order to marry LilithJackson his father replied that he forbade it until he hadmade a career for himself. In 1879 he heard that Lilith hadmarried someone else. When he eventually returned to Englandhe married a friend of his sister, Mariana Louisa Margitsonand brought her back to Africa. Later they had a sonnamed Jock (who died of measles at the age of 10) and threedaughters. Returning again to England in 1882, the couplesettled in Ditchingham, Norfolk. Later he lived in Kessinglandand had connections with the church in Bungay, Suffolk. Heturned to the study of law and was called to the bar in 1884.His practice of law was somewhat desultory, and much of histime was taken up by the writing of novels. Heavily influencedby the larger-than-life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa,most notably Frederick Selous and Frederick Russell Burnham,the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins ofancient lost civilizations in Africa such as Great Zimbabwe,Haggard created his Allan Quatermain adventures. Three of hisbooks, The Wizard (1896), Elissa; the doom of Zimbabwe(1899), and Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu idyll (1900)are dedicated to Burnham's daughter, Nada, the first whitechild born in Bulawayo, herself named after Haggard's 1892book: Nada the Lily. Years later, when Haggard was a successfulnovelist, he was contacted by his former love, Lilith Jackson.She had been deserted by her husband, who had left herpenniless and infected her with syphilis, from which she eventuallydied. It was Haggard who paid her medical bills. Thesedetails were not generally known until the publication ofHaggard's 1983 biography by D. S. Higgins. Haggard washeavily involved in agricultural reform and was a member ofmany Commissions on land use and related affairs, work thatinvolved several trips to the Colonies and Dominions. He wasmade a Knight Bachelor in 1912, and a Knight Commander ofthe Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfullyfor parliament as a candidate for the Conservative Party.