Caesar and Cleopatra visit the Tomb of Alexander the Great

Описание: It is evident from references in the ancient literature that the tomb of Alexander in Alexandria ranked high among the most famous sights of antiquity. Accounts of visits by Julius Caesar, Octavian, Septimius Severus and Caracalla have survived, whilst Antony and Cleopatra, Germanicus and Caligula, Vespasian and Titus and Hadrian and Antinous must all have seen it.
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*scene from the classic movie on Cleopatra where Caesar and Cleopatra discuss the legacy and mantle of Alexander the Great.

The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra.


It is the year 69 before Christ. Gaius Julius Caesar, now more than thirty, is located in Cadiz, the ancient Gades of Punic origin.
Here, one step away from the famous Gates, where the Mediterranean flows into the ocean, the Roman wanders around the temple dedicated to Hercules, the mythical Greek hero that had advanced far and beyond.
Suddenly, Caesar stops in front of the statue of another half-god, Alexander the Great, who died at the age of not yet thirty-three, in June 323 BC. Plutarch, in his “Parallel Lives“, and Suetonius in the “Lives of the Caesars” tell us the incident. To those who asked for the reason for his subdued weeping before the effigy of Macedonus, Caesar replied that he could not suffocate his pain. On the one hand, he saw how at 32, the same age as himself, Alexander had left, dying, a boundless empire that he had created. On the other hand, Caesar felt he had not yet completed a noteworthy undertaking.
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It could be said that Alexander's dream and ambitions not only influenced the Roman Empire but it also influenced Christianity through a Jewish Roman also known as the Apostle Paul who in his theology infused it with the Universalism of Hellenistic and Alexandrian ambition.

When Caesar read about Alexander’s life, he burst into tears.
“His friends were surprised, and asked him the reason of it. ‘Do you think,’ said he, ‘I have not just cause to weep, when I consider that Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable?’”



Cesare Borgia:
Aut Caesar aut nihil (‘Either Caesar or nothing’) as his motto