The Understanding of Cleopatra

Cleopatra, which was a mysterious and legendary woman, has become a beautiful dream in people’s mind. She was the third daughter of Ptolemy XII and until she was nineteen, she could speak nine kinds of languages. She was also the last Egyptian pharaoh. When I knew her story, a sentence occurred my mind, which was “men conquer women by conquering the world, but women conquer the world by conquering men”. Her name was from her legend of love and life, and Dante and Shakespeare preferred to call her “an extraordinary sexy temptress.”

Before I learned the first chapter and watched the movie of Cleopatra, I thought Cleopatra was a bad woman. She was malicious, because she caused the war between Roma and Egypt and in order to get the king, she killed her brother. She was an evil though she was the most beautiful woman that I have heard of. But when I saw the movie of Cleopatra, I thought I was wrong. She made me have a new understanding about her, beautiful, wise, aspiring, and loyal.

There is no doubt that she was beautiful, as a woman. Maybe you said many women are beautiful and that is not curious. But no woman could fuse wisdom with beauty perfectly. Julius Caesar, a great man, one by the cult of the Roman empire and all the people of historical figures, to kneel in front of the woman -- Cleopatra. She was a queen who conquered Julius Caesar, Antony and Roman by her wisdom and beauty, so someone said “she was such a woman that can conquer a world”. In the view of my opinion, I thought a woman falls in love with the only man, but my idea was changed by her. She loved Caesar and Antony. When she married Caesar in Egypt, she encouraged Caesar to realize his aspiration－to be the king of Rome. After seven years, Caesar had had back to Rome. When she knew this news, she prepared to go to Rome with her son at once. She gave a wonderful show to everyone, wearing beautiful clothes made by gold. At that time, Antony loved her at first sight. But unfortunately, Caesar failed in the process of to be king and was killed, and Antony helped Cleopatra to return Egypt. During the next long time, Cleopatra waited for opportunities to revenge, until Antony came to Egypt. To be honest, I thought Antony loved Cleopatra deeper than Caesar. In order to stick with Cleopatra, Antony would rather give up his power, position, dream, even his life. Whatever the truth about the history, I think of Cleopatra is a beauty to conquer the entire queen, a bitter waiting for you to love of woman. I believe that there is no anything more precious than a

man uses his life to protect and love you. Of course, Cleopatra was moved by his love, so she chose death when Octavian won and defeated Antony. Now I do not know the love clearly between two people, but I hope I could meet a boy like Antony. Maybe when two people fall in love with each other, money, power and position are nothing for them.

Someone said she was the combination of angel and demon. For the Egyptian, she was the queen. Because she brought the peace and got the protection of Rome at least 22 years, Egypt was in prosperity for a long time. On the contrary, she was an evil for the Roman. In Roman’s eyes, she brought war to them and broke the balance

of the power. After Caesar’s death, Antony leaved Rome to Egypt and never return, so the roman thought Antony discarded them. This made them furious. Eventually the Roman regarded her as the most emery. In my mind, she was nothing wrong. As the king of Egypt, she must take the benefit of Egyptian as the first position and protect her country. As a woman, she had the responsibility to protect her husband and child. She was a good king and wife.

Speaking of her death, some people said she was killed by herself, but the other said she was killed by Octavian. Some historians more believe the second wording. But I preferred the first idea, because in the view of my opinion, she was kingly and dignified. I believe that she would rather finish her life than captured by Octavian. Because of this, she left lots of mysteries for us, but there is a truth that she was a legend. And countless people were admired by her glamour.

第二篇：读后感

读《历史故事园》有感

“穿越时空，对话五千年的历史和文明”。是的，正如开头所写，这就是我在读《历史故事园》时的感受。

《历史故事园》中记述了许许多多的历史事件，其中，《玛雅文明的终止之谜》《木马计》《断头的国王》等给我留下了深刻的印象。而《伟大的恺撒》使我最受感触。恺撒接近平民，反对元老贵族的活动，在平民中具有极高的声望，他与庞培、克拉苏结成“三头执政”，在克拉苏战死后，打败庞培，娶了“埃及艳后”，成为罗马的“独裁者”最后，只身赴会，被阴谋者谋杀。

我最敬佩恺撒的还是他的勇敢。在公元前44年3月十五日，他尽管知道有人要暗杀他，却依然只身一人去开会，很有几分关羽单刀赴会的感觉。而我跟他就不可相提并论了。有一次，我们一家三口去骑车，回来的路上，有一个大坡子，而旁边是略微高出来一截的小台子，有很长一段，下面是铁轨，我们三个就在台子上走。不料，我心不在焉的，竟然不小心左脚踏空，踩到台子外面，摔了下去。台子不高，我伤得不重，心里却十分不高兴，便越发觉得疼得厉害的很，“哇”的一声就哭了出来，泪水像断线的珍珠，止不住地淌着，然后便一发不可收拾，直到家依然未能停止。我连小小的疼痛都忍不了，真是得好好学学恺撒的勇敢了。

在《历史故事园》中可以学到不少历史方面的知识，拓展我们的知识面，值得好好去品味它。

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