Historydraft LogoHistorydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta
Historydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta

Cleopatra

The Roman Republic annexed Cyprus

58 BC
Alexandria, Egypt

In 58 BC, after Roman senator Publius Clodius Pulcher accused Ptolemy XII's brother of aiding pirates who disrupted Roman shipping, the Roman Republic annexed Cyprus and drove Ptolemy of Cyprus, where he committed suicide rather than face exile to Paphos as a priest of Apollo.


<