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Historical person
48 BCE–31 BCE
Caesarion was the son of Cleopatra VII and, according to Cleopatra, Julius Caesar. He was made co-ruler of Egypt and presented as heir to Ptolemaic and Caesarian legitimacy, but was killed after Octavian conquered Egypt.
In Margaret George’s The Memoirs of Cleopatra, their political and personal alliance produces Caesarion and draws her into the final conflicts of the Roman Republic, but Caesar’s assassination leaves both her position and her son’s future exposed.
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The Mark Antony series presents a biographical saga of the Roman commander from the Catilinarian crisis to his defeat by Octavian. Antony’s youth is shaped by the execution of his stepfather, service under Aulus Gabinius in Judaea and Egypt, and the campaigns in Gaul that bind him to…
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