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forward slash Giants of history. And then. In this episode we're going to talk quite a bit about the baby that Cleopatra was now carrying, and the father of this baby

was none other than Julius Caesar. Or was it? And I say that because the paternity of Cleopatra's first child has been debated for over 2,000 years.

And the main reason for this debate centers around the fertility of Caesar himself.

Now some sources and scholars have even gone so far as to suggest that Caesar may have been

sterile later in life.

There is no hard evidence for this of course, but these scholars point to one thing when putting this argument forward.

Numbers.

Consider the following.

Caesar was in his mid-50s when he died, having been born in 100 B.C. and assassinated in 44 B.C.E.

And Caesar, as we have said prior, absolutely loved women.

Various sources use various adjectives to describe Caesar in this respect.

Words like Womanizer and Lythario and Rake and Philanderer.

And I've used some of these words myself in previous descriptions of him.

But the bottom line here is this, that Caesar was a playboy for all of his adult life, and we can

say with confidence that Caesar probably went to bed with a woman for the first time at a fairly

young age, given he was married for the first time at a fairly young age given he was married for the first time

when he was around 16 years old.

So for the purposes of this argument here, let's just say that he was 16 when he lost his virginity. If he then lived to be 55

then that means that he would have been sexually active for the better part of 40 years

and given the physical descriptions of 40 years.

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