Cleopatra Rolled Out On A Carpet

Taking them by surprise cleopatra turned on her beat box and started to play walk like an egyptian on her father s old flute.

Cleopatra rolled out on a carpet.

Then the carpet was taken to the palace where caesar was staying. Cleopatra had herself rolled up in a rug or a mat or a laundry sack there are various versions of this story because caesar summoned her to alexandria to try to get her and her brother to. Then her servants rolled up the carpet with cleopatra inside. She lay down on a carpet.

As i explain in this article i wrote in january 2020 the famous story of cleopatra rolling out of a carpet when she met julius caesar for the first time comes from a mistranslation of a passage in the biography the life of julius caesar written by the greek biographer and middle platonist philosopher ploutarchos of chaironeia lived c. Whilst this was going on from out of the shadows a carpet rolled towards the romans and out popped cleopatra. As outlined in amy crawford s smithsonian article it is often said that cleopatra came up with a scheme to sneak herself into the palace where caesar was staying by hiding inside a rolled up carpet. Cleopatra had herself rolled up in a rug or a mat or a laundry sack there are various versions of this story because caesar summoned her to alexandria to try to get her and her brother to.

The guards saw some. An affair followed leading to the birth of a son caesarion. A year later caesar was assassinated. After wrapping her up her.

But what is known is that a hundred and fifty years later the young queen of egypt cleopatra showed up in caesar s alexandria headquarters wrapped in a carpet almost certainly made in north africa. We ve all heard the following story. In 48 bc the resourceful cleopatra forbidden by her brother ptolemy xiii to meet with the roman general had herself wrapped in a carpet or according to some historians a linen sack and smuggled into caesar s quarters. Julius caesar arrived in egypt and met a 22 year old cleopatra rolled in a carpet supposedly.

Caesar and cleopatra left alexandria for rome in 45 b c. The romans burst in laughter and clapped along with the song.