Клеопа́тра VII Филопа́тор — последняя царица эллинистического Египта из македонской династии Птолемеев. Прославлена благодаря драматической истории любви к римскому полководцу Марку Антонию. Википедия
What language would Cleopatra have spoken?
Plutarch implies that she also spoke Ethiopian, the language of the "Troglodytes", Hebrew (or Aramaic), Arabic, the Syrian language (perhaps Syriac), Median, and Parthian, and she could apparently also speak Latin, although her Roman contemporaries would have preferred to speak with her in her native Koine Greek.
Did Cleopatra speak nine languages?
Her fascination with -- and admiration for -- Cleopatra is intense. The last queen of Ancient Egypt, she told me, "spoke nine languages, she was a philosopher, she was a poet, she was a politician, she was a goddess, and she was a warrior."
Was Cleopatra Greek or Egyptian?
Cleopatra was not Egyptian. While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals.
What language did Julius Caesar and Cleopatra speak?
GOLDSWORTHY: We know that Cleopatra's first language is Greek. And any Roman like Caesar or Mark Antony - an educated, aristocratic Roman of that day and age - grows up to be fluently bilingual. Now, Cleopatra spoke in... MICHAEL: In Greek and Latin.
