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After the Assassination: Cleopatra's Cold Calculation
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When Julius Caesar fell to assassins' blades, Cleopatra lost everything she had built in Rome — and had days to decide her next move. This episode traces the ruthless political logic behind her return to Egypt, the death of Ptolemy XIV, and the elevation of three-year-old Caesarion as co-ruler.
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On the fifteenth of March, forty-four BCE, Julius Caesar was stabbed twenty-three times on the floor of the Senate. Cleopatra heard the news from a villa outside Rome.
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