The Rise of Cleopatra
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Famed across the ages and around the world - everyone knows the name Cleopatra. But how did she become one of the most infamous women in history?
Born in 69BCE, a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Hellenistic Egypt, Cleopatra VII lived a tumultuous life. Within two turbulent decades of taking the throne of Egypt, Cleopatra had emerged the victor of a brutal civil war. She won the hearts of two of Rome’s most powerful men, and successfully restored a golden age for her kingdom - she was a force few dared to reckon with.
In this episode, Tristan is joined by Professor Joyce Tyldesley, Dr Chris Naunton, and Dr Glenn Godenho, to discuss the rise of Cleopatra.
Produced by Annie Coloe. Edited and sound designed by Thomas Ntinas.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Entrance on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's |
| 0:20.0 | podcast we've got a special multi-contributor episode on a cracking topic you're going |
| 0:24.8 | to love it because we're focusing in on the rise of Cleopatra the seventh the famous Cleopatra |
| 0:31.3 | arguably the most renowned the most famous woman from the ancient world and as mentioned we're |
| 0:38.8 | not going to be really focusing in on her downfall on the battle of actium on her end alongside |
| 0:44.4 | Mark Antony Shakespeare and the like we're going to be focusing in on what we know about her rise |
| 0:49.5 | to such an extraordinary position and how she came to be the ruler of this incredibly powerful |
| 0:56.4 | empire, Tolomeic kingdom in the eastern Mediterranean. We're going to be looking at all of this from |
| 1:02.3 | her birth to the donations of Alexandria with three experts today. We have got Professor Joyce Tildesley |
| 1:11.1 | we have got Dr. Chris Norton and we've got Dr. Glenn Godenho all together along with some |
| 1:18.1 | voiceover narration by myself linking it all together. Now these three brilliant experts Glenn, |
| 1:25.4 | Joyce and Chris they also feature in the documentary version of this episode the Rise of Cleopatra |
| 1:32.6 | which we have recently released on History Hit TV so if you're interested to learn more you can |
| 1:38.4 | go and check out that documentary and the other rise of episodes that we have in that collection |
| 1:43.1 | such as the Rise of Hannibal and the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. But that is enough from me we've |
| 1:48.5 | put a lot of hours into this particular episode kudos goes to our editor of this episode Tom Dinos |
| 1:55.4 | and also of course our producers Alena Guthrie and Annie Kolo they all deserve a loss of credit. I'm |
| 2:02.2 | just the tip of the iceberg in the ancient's team and that's enough from me because here you go |
| 2:07.2 | here is our special Rise of Cleopatra episode today enjoy. |
| 2:26.1 | Cleopatra was born in around 69 BC she was born into a dynasty that had ruled over Egypt for more |
| 2:34.4 | than 200 years the Tollamaic dynasty. The Tollamaic dynasty is the name that we give to the kings |
| 2:44.2 | who basically are all descended from each other and call themselves Tollamae. It's right at the end |
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