Cleopatra - Eternal Life - Part 5 - Extra History

Cleopatra: Eternal Life - It's impossible to talk about Cleopatra without mentioning her legacy. How did the Queen become so famous that today almost everyone knows her even though she lived several thousand years ago? We have her enemy, Octavian, to thank. When he declared himself the first Roman Emperor, he used Cleopatra as a shield and made her immortal. And when the Renaissance came, William Shakespeare reclaimed her story and used it as the basis for one of his most famous plays. Cleopatra never needed to build a monument. We built them for her.