Cleopatra (disambiguation)
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Cleopatra is the name given to several historical and mythological figures, most especially:
- People
- Cleopatra VII of Egypt, last of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, lover of Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and the subject of several plays (including Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare) and various films. Typically, an unqualified reference to "Cleopatra" will be about her.
- Six other Egyptian queens: Cleopatra I, Cleopatra II, Cleopatra III, Cleopatra IV, Cleopatra V and Cleopatra VI.
- Cleopatra Selene I daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III of Egypt.
- Cleopatra Selene II, also known as Cleopatra VIII of Egypt, an only daughter to Roman Triumvir Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Selene would become Roman client queen of Numidia and later Mauretania.
- Cleopatra of Mauretania, a possible daughter of queen Cleopatra Selene II and king Juba II of Mauretania.
- Cleopatra Thea, queen of the Seleucid Empire from 125-121 BC
- Cleopatra of Macedonia (c. 356 BC–308 BC), sister of Macedonian King Alexander the Great and daughter of King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias.
- Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon, a wife of Philip II of Macedon
- Cleopatra of Pontus (born 110 BC), Pontian wife of Tigranes the Great and daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Cleopatra Stratan, a child singer
- Geography
- Mythology
- Daughter of Tros and Callirrhoe (daughter of the river-god Scamander) in Greek mythology.
- Daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager
- Daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, wife of Phineas
- One of the first two maidens sent by the people of Locris to the shrine of Athena at Troy, in order to relieve them of plaque. The other was named Periboea.
- One of the Danaids. She married Agenor, son of Aegyptus and an Arabian woman.
- Another Danaid. Her mother was Polyxo. She married Hermus, son of Aegyptus and Caliadne.
- Games, films, music, and modern culture
- Cleopatra (band) is a musical group from the UK
- Cleopatra is an expansion pack for the Pharaoh computer game.
- See Cleopatra (film) for movies based on the life of Cleopatra of Egypt
- Kleopatra is a musical group from Greece who entered the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 with the song "Olou Tou Kosmou I Elpida"
- Cleopatra Records is an independent record label specializing in gothic rock, hard rock, and heavy metal
- Cleopatra (novel) is a novel by the author H. Rider Haggard
- Cleopatra Jones is a Blaxploitation movie series and its eponymous heroine.
- Cleopatra 2525 is a television science fiction series.
- Cleopatra (Clone High), fictional teenage clone on American-Canadian TV Series Clone High USA.
- Cleopatra was a plant owned by Mortisha in The Addams Family.
- Astronomy
- 216 Kleopatra is a bizarrely shaped asteroid.
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