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Catastrophe reliably cements a reputation, and Cleopatra's end was sudden and sensational. She had a child with a married man, three more with another. For a fleeting moment she held the fate of the Western world in her hands. A goddess as a child, a queen at 18, at the height of her power she controlled virtually the entire eastern Mediterranean coast, the last great kingdom of any Egyptian ruler. She lost her kingdom once regained it nearly lost it again amassed an empire lost it all. Stacy Schiff wrote in her book Cleopatra: A Biography, “Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before the birth of Christ. But despite these flaws she is one of the world's most famous seductresses. Coin portraits and a bust reportedly made in her lifetime show her with a prominent nose and a large forehead. A Greek Queen of Egypt, she played a major role in the extension of the Roman Empire and was a lover of Julius Caesar, the wife of Marc Antony and a victim of Augustus Caesar, the creator of the Roman Empire. Cleopatra (69-30 B.C.) is one of the most famous women of all a time.