Cleopatra's father had thrown in his lot with Pompey the Great. Good fortune seemed eternally to shine on that brilliant Roman general, at least until Julius Caesar dealt him a crushing defeat in ...

Pompey, struggling to beat Caesar ... Caesar demanded an explanation from Ptolemy, and Cleopatra and ordered them both to appear before him. This was tricky for Cleo as she was currently having ...

who felt thwarted by her father’s wish to hand over the throne to Cleopatra and kept plotting against her. In 48 BC, when Rome was torn by a civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey ...

with Julius Caesar facing off against Pompey, a Roman general. The two siblings became involved in Rome's civil war, on different sides of the conflict. Cleopatra supported Caesar, whom she had ...