Cleopatra was a famous queen of ancient Egypt, she was beautiful, intelligent and self-confident, she was not Egyptian but belonged to a Greek dynasty that started with Ptolemyi. Cleopatra became well known because of her love affair with two Roman rulers, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt. When her father, Ptolemy 12, died, she became ruler together with her elder brother. Some of her brothers' friends, however, drove her out of Egypt. When Julius Caesar came to the country he helped to regain the throne. She ruled again, this time with her younger brother. Caesar and Cleopatra fell in love and they had a son together, Caesar Ion. Cleopatra went with Caesar to Rome and lived in his villa for some time when Caesar was murdered in 44 BC Cleopatra returned to Egypt, historians believe that she killed her younger brother in order to be the only ruler of Egypt.