Last Meal

Ptolemy XIV Philopator

Following the death of his older brother Ptolemy XIII, he was proclaimed Pharaoh and co-ruler by their older sister and remaining Pharaoh, Cleopatra. He and his older sister were married, but Cleopatra continued to act as lover of Roman dictator Julius Caesar.

On March 5, 44 BC Caesar was murdered in Rome by a group of conspirators. Ptolemy soon followed him in death. It has been assumed but remains uncertain that Cleopatra poisoned her co-ruler, with aconite, to replace him with his nephew Ptolemy XV Caesar, her son by Caesar who was proclaimed co-ruler on September 2, 44 BC and whom his mother intended to support as successor of his father.

This is an ominous image of Ptolemy XIV’s last meal…

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