Episode 2 – The Other Cleopatra
Filmed on location in: Egypt, Morocco, USA, UK and Ireland.
Cleopatra VII was the ancient world’s greatest queen, but she wasn’t the only one to bear that name. A century before, her predecessor Cleopatra II had an even more shocking and dramatic reign. Incest, murder, rape and mutilation – hers is a tale so grotesque and appalling it almost seems invented. Cleopatra II wielded great power, and would do anything to keep it. This is the story of a family torn apart by hatred and a lust for power.
Cast
- Narrator – Jane Perry
- Cleopatra II – Vanessa Milchrahm
- Cleopatra III – Anais Rizzo
- Ptolemy VI – Florian Zapra
- Ptolemy VIII / Physcon – Nathan Clough
- Young Cleopatra II – Elhyan Khadija
- Young Cleopatra III – Snani Imane
- Young Ptolemy VI – Ouhassou Yassine
- Young Ptolemy VIII / Physcon – Ilyass Karim
- Memphites – Mouaaiz Outhmane
- Ptolemy Neos Philopator – Alyhyan Hassain
- Flavius Josephus – Taha Misbah
- Josephus’s Scribe – Mohamed Nouri
- Additional Voices – Eric Meyers
- Extras – Morocco Film Productions
Expert Contributors
- Martina Minas-Nerpel – University of Trier, Germany
- Alex McAuley – Cardiff University, UK
- Colleen Darnell – Egyptologist, USA
- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones – Cardiff University, UK
- Heba Abd El Gawad – Egyptologist, Egypt
- John Darnell – Yale University, USA
- Franck Goddio – Underwater Archaeologist, Egypt
