Study Questions from Chapter One of “Cleopatra VII : Student-Teacher edition.”

Cleopatra VII is one of the most famous women in history. What most people know about her comes from political slander spread by Emperor Caesar Augustus — Octavian, nephew to Gaius Julius Caesar.

The real woman was much more interesting.

Here are the study questions that follow and relate to chapter one of “Cleopatra VII.”

We begin Cleopatra’s story in the middle of her civil war with brother Ptolemy Theos Philopator.  Compare and contrast Cleopatra’s personality with her...