Wie was de machtigste vrouw in de Oudheid?
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This relief shows Cleopatra with Caesarion, her son with Roman emperor Julius Caesar. Though she had been married to two of her brothers, their unions produced no children.
A portrait of Cleopatra emphasizes her Egyptian headdress. Though the Ptolemaic dynasty descended from a Macedonian general of Alexander the Great—and practiced inbreeding to preserve their bloodline—Cleopatra framed herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess Isis.
A plaque dedicated to Artemisia shows her surrounded by twelve gods.
Artemisia of Halicarnassus was immortalized in the writings of the Greek historian Herotodus, who lived in Halicarnassus a few decades after her death.