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With his help, at the age of seventeen, she becomes queen of Egypt, but feels betrayed when her brother is ordered back as her co-regent. Cleopatra and Caesar tour the country, and she becomes pregnant. They marry and he returns home, while she gives birth of a son named
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graded the novel with an A− and called it an "absorbing, meticulous cast-of-thousands epic". Harlan added that while "long swaths of Roman civil warfare might prove skimmable for some... the rest of
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is named in his stead. In accordance with tradition, she marries him. Later, Ptolemy overthrows his sister under the advice of his advisers. Cleopatra seeks out the nearby
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