All strange and terrible events are welcome, but we despise comfort.
Although Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she was not of Egyptian descent; she was rather a member of the Macedonian Greek royal family, the Ptolemies.
She was a mathematician, chemist, and philosopher. Moreover, she was multilingual and spoke between five and nine languages.
She was married to her brother and co-ruler Ptolemy. She later married his younger brother Ptolemy XIV.