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Oct 16, 2005 · Caesarion: Directed by Steve Shill. With Ray Stevenson, Kevin McKidd, Polly Walker, Kenneth Cranham. Brutus gets a chilly reception from Servilia when he returns home from Greece.
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Caesarion is the illegitimate son of Cleopatra and Titus Pullo, having been conceived days before Cleopatra returned to Alexandria to ally herself with Caesar.
From birth, Caesarion is believed to be the son of Gaius Julius Caesar.
After the assassination of Caesar, Octavian is legally adopted by Caesar as his sole heir. Meanwhile Cleopatra travels to Rome in order to have Caesarion recognised as Caesars heir, in which she is refused.
Caesarion attends a party at Atia's villa, beginning a silent rivalry with Octavian, who actively poses a threat to Octavian's inheritance.
Caesarion later becomes a half-brother to Cleopatra and Mark Antony's twin children, Helios and Selene. When Alexandria is besieged by Octavian, Cleopatra trusts that Vorenus will help Caesarion survive and travel with him to Rome, where he will live in secrecy with his true father Titus Pullo. Pullo meets them on their way Rome, where Pullo informs the boy of Cleopatra's suicide. The next day, Roman scouts discover that Vorenus and Pullo are trying to smuggle Caesarion to Rome, resulting in Vorenus being mortally wounded. Eventually, Caesarion, Pullo and the wounded Vorenus return to Rome. After returning a dying Vorenus to his family, Pullo meets with Octavian after his triumph, and lies to him, telling him that he killed Caesarion, taking the boys head and disposing of it once it had rotted too much.
After Caesarion vows revenge on Octavian, Pullo informs him who his true father is.
Ptolemy XV Caesar (/ ˈ t ɒ l əm i /; Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Καῖσαρ, Ptolemaios Kaisar; 23 June 47 BC – 29 August 30 BC), nicknamed Caesarion (Greek: Καισαρίων, Kaisaríōn, "Little Caesar"), was the last pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, reigning with his mother Cleopatra VII from 2 September 44 BC until her death by 12 ...
Jul 10, 2018 · Cleopatra VII and her young son Caesarion visit Rome, residing in Julius Caesar's villa; Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix with a controversial statue of Cleopatra as Isis-Venus within.
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May 28, 2024 · Caesarion, in full Ptolemy Philopator Philometor Caesar, was a king of Egypt (reigned 44–30 BCE) and a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Having ascended the throne as a child, Ptolemy was his mother’s coruler.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Caesarion, in full Ptolemy Philopator Philometor Caesar, was a king of Egypt (reigned 44–30 BCE) and a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Having asce...
- Caesarion was the child of Cleopatra and Caesar, although a few Classical authors, perhaps for political reasons, expressed doubts about his patern...
- Cleopatra and her lover Mark Antony suffered a disastrous defeat at Actium in 31 BCE during the war against Octavian, and Egypt fell to Octavian in...
Caesar and his Legion arrives in Alexandria in pursuit of Pompey, who unbeknown to him has already been betrayed and murdered while seeking refuge there. Caesar is greeted by the ministers of the young King Ptolemy XIII, led by Ptolemy's regent, the eunuch Pothinus, and his tutor Theodotus.
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The life of Caesarion, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, was destined for controversy from the moment of his birth. His existence was a palpable symbol of the fragile alliances and tensions between Rome and Egypt, two powers that had shaped the Mediterranean world.
