CLEOPATRA (DISAMBIGUATION)

'Cleopatra' (in Greek, ''Κλεοπάτρα'') is a name given to several historical and mythological figures, especially from ancient and Hellenistic Royalty. The name ''Cleopatra'' means ''glory of her father''. It derives from the Greek words ''Κλέος'' (=''glory'') and ''Πατρός'', genitive case of the word ''Πατήρ'' (=''father'').
Its masculine form is ''Κλεόπατρος'' – ''Cleopatros''.
;Historical women

★ 'Cleopatra VII of Egypt', last of the Ptolemaic rulers, lover of Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and the subject of several plays (including ''Antony and Cleopatra'' by Shakespeare) and various films. Typically, an unqualified reference to "''Cleopatra''" will be about her.

★ Six other Egyptian queens: Cleopatra I, Cleopatra II, Cleopatra III, Cleopatra IV, Cleopatra V and Cleopatra VI;

★ Cleopatra Selene I, daughter of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and Cleopatra III;

★ Cleopatra Selene II, also known as ''Cleopatra VIII of Egypt'' or ''Cleopatra VIII'', an only daughter to Roman Triumvir Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. Selene became the Roman client queen of Numidia and later Mauretania;

★ Cleopatra of Mauretania, also known as ''Cleopatra IX'', possible daughter of Cleopatra Selene II and the king Juba II of Mauretania;

★ Cleopatra Thea, queen of the Seleucid Empire from 125–121 BC;

★ Cleopatra of Macedon (c. 356–308 BC), sister of Alexander III of Macedon and daughter of the king Philip II and Olympias;

★ Cleopatra Eurydice of Macedon, a wife of Philip II;

★ Cleopatra of Pontus (born 110 BC), Pontian wife of Tigranes the Great and daughter of Mithridates VI of Pontus
;Geography

★ A later name of the Egyptian city Arsinoe
;Mythology

★ Daughter of Tros and Callirrhoe (daughter of the river-god Scamander) in Greek mythology.

★ Daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager, surnamed Alcyone - she died with grief at her husband's death at the hands of Apollo. (Hom. II. ix. 562; Eustath ad Hom. p. 776; Hygin. Fab. 174.)

★ Daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, wife of Phineas

★ One of the first two maidens sent by the people of Locris to the shrine of Athena at Troy, in order to relieve them of plague. The other was named Periboea.

★ One of the Danaids. She married Agenor, son of Aegyptus and an Arabian woman.

★ Another Danaid. Her mother was Polyxo. She married Hermus, son of Aegyptus and Caliadne.
;Games, films, music and modern culture

★ Cleopatra and the Society of Architects is a board game published by Days of Wonder

★ Cleopatra (band) is a musical group from the UK

★ Cleopatra is an expansion pack for the Pharaoh computer game.

★ Cleopatra (film) for movies based on the life of Cleopatra of Egypt

★ Kleopatra is a musical group from Greece who entered the Eurovision Song Contest 1992 with the song "Olou Tou Kosmou I Elpida"

★ Cleopatra Records is an independent record label specializing in gothic rock, hard rock, and heavy metal

★ Cleopatra (novel) is a novel by the author H. Rider Haggard

★ Cleopatra Jones is a Blaxploitation movie series and its eponymous heroine.

★ Cleopatra 2525 is a television science fiction series.

★ Cleopatra (Clone High), fictional teenage clone on American-Canadian TV Series Clone High USA.

★ Cleopatra was a plant owned by Morticia in The Addams Family.

★ Kleopatra is a X.509 certificate management application from KDE.

★ Cleopatra Stratan, a child singer.

★ Cleopatra General Student Association Groningen, a student society in Groningen, the Netherlands.
;Astronomy

★ 216 Kleopatra is a bizarrely shaped asteroid.

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References

See also

★ Cleo

★ Cleopatra of Egypt

References

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