Did Cleopatra the seventh have any accomplishments.?

Question

Did Cleopatra the seventh have any accomplishments.?

Answer 1

Cleopatra was educated according to the traditions of the Pharoahs, which attached a great deal of importance to scholarship.  In Cleopatra's time, the course of study was based on Greek literature, espeically the works considered masterpieces.  She read and studied Homer's epics, the poems of hesiod and Pindar, the tragedies of Euripides, the comedies of Memander, and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides.  She learnt the art of rhetoric from the speeches of Demosthenes.  She took courses in arithmetic and geometry, astronomy and medicine.  A gifted amatueur, the young queen also learned to draw, play the seven-string lyre, and sing.  She was an excellent horsewoman - a sure sing of Hellenism in a 'barbarian' land.

  Her intellectual abilities were remarkable, but the queen displayed a particular talent for foreign languages.  Plutarch said of her "It was a pleasure merely to hear her voice, with which, like the instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another, so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter; to most of them she spoke herself, as to the Aethiopians, Troglodytes, Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes, Parthians and many others whose languages she had learnt." She was one of the few members of her family who spoke those languages fluently, thus facilitating diplomatic negotiations.

  She displayed a great natural talent for the sciences, which may be why Photinus, a master of arithmetic and geometry, titled his work Cleopatra's Canon.  When she was still very young, she surrounded herself with persons of great learning, such as the physician Dionscorides and the astronomer Sosigenes, who later recast the calendar at Julius Caesar's behest.  Cleopatra's intelligenge, inquisitive spirit, and pleasure in intellectual matters were highlighted by a marked sometimes almost overbearing, sense of humour.

Answer 2

She ruled Egypt for 20 years.

She seduced 2 Roman leaders.

Answer 3

She had the love of two of the most famous men at that epoch!