Cleopatra and Caesar
An exiled queen smuggles herself into the quarters of Rome’s most powerful general. Their alliance wins her a throne and makes them enemies that history remembers.
Episodes
Exiled by her brother, Cleopatra has herself carried into Caesar’s quarters in Alexandria rolled inside a carpet.
Caesar sees a queen who can feed Rome, and Cleopatra sees a general who can win her a throne.
Her brother’s army besieges the palace, and the two allies fight side by side in the burning harbour.
Cleopatra arrives in Rome to a city that fears her, and a Senate that fears Caesar more.
Warnings reach Cleopatra too late, and the alliance meets the knives of March.
