15: Cleopatra Part II

Following the victory of the Battle of Alexandria, Cleopatra and Julius Caesar enter into one of the most famous historical romances of all time. In addition to pleasure barges and goddess statues, there are ostentatious street parties and pretentious dinner parties. Julius Caesar also gets all stabby-stabbed and Cleopatra makes an enemy of Cicero after promising to give him a cool book and then deciding . . . lol just kidding. Somewhere along the way, history forgot that Cleopatra was also a diligent workaholic and more than competent ruler (thanks history uncles!). But we didn’t! Join us for part 2 of our 3-part series on Egypt’s most infamous Queen. We have leopards and giraffes and jars of the Nile river, oh my!