Cleopatra, Child
The Pharaoh's Palace in Alexandria from the Vault of Nut
66 BC
Cleopatra Elder particularly enjoyed sitting with her youngest
daughter, reading aloud the stories and history of ancient Egypt in
Egyptian from scrolls taken from the famous Library of Alexandria to
the wide-eyed youth. She read to her in Greek about the country they
ruled, and about glories of Greece, especially Macedonia where the
Ptolemaic Dynasty had originated, and in Latin of contentious Rome,
the newest empire and Egypt's current principal debt-holder. From
earliest age, Cleopatra VII Philopater also heard of her personal
protector, the Goddess Isis. When the Queen Mother tired, she would
have her teenage maid, Charmion, a beautiful, ebony-colored Nubian
slave who would later become Queen Cleopatra VII's personal maid
and cosmetic advisor, recite hymns and sing praises in Egyptian to Isis.
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