The Ptolemaic kings and queens had a long family tradition of competing for the throne: sibling against sibling or parent against child. ( Watch how Cleopatra achieved immortality through her personal story of love and tragedy.)Īfter their father’s death in 51 B.C., Ptolemy and his sister were symbolically wed, but there was no love between them, familial or otherwise. Because Egypt had become a Roman protectorate during the elder Ptolemy’s rule, Romans had a say in who would be ruling Egypt. They would serve together under the guardianship of Rome. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Ĭaesarion’s story began when his grandfather, Ptolemy XII, named his two oldest children, 18-year-old Cleopatra and 10-year-old Ptolemy XIII, as co-heirs. The playful surroundings stand in stark contrast to the wildly romantic and dramatic life and death of its namesake.Please be respectful of copyright. Anthony owned many tracts of land in the Bronx, principally above Kingsbridge Road and stretching from Jerome Avenue to Webster Avenue.Ĭleopatra Playground offers modular play equipment, safety surfacing, swings, slides, a basketball standard, a yardarm flying the American, City of New York, and Parks flags, benches, greenery, a water fountain, decorative columns, and terraces. In the 1870s, Allard’s descendant Charles L. The earliest records of the Anthony family in America date from 1688, and are of Dutch merchant Allard Anthony. The facility opened in 1994 as Anthony Avenue Park, following a $1.84 million construction project.
5 in the South Bronx,” a park with basketball courts should be constructed. felt that because this land was located in the “sorely under-served Community Board No. Two years later, Councilman Israel Ruiz, Jr. On December 28, 1989, the Department of Real Property surrendered the land bounded by Anthony Avenue, Prospect Place, Clay Avenue, and the Cross-Bronx Expressway to Parks. Ptolemy, the son of Cleopatra and Caesar, and the last member of the Ptolemy dynasty, was executed by Octavian, and Egypt became a Roman province. Hearing that Octavian intended to exhibit his body in his triumph at Rome, Cleopatra also killed herself by pressing an asp (a poisonous Egyptian snake) to her bosom. During battle, Antony was deceived by a false report of the death of Cleopatra and committed suicide. Because he loved Cleopatra, Antony sided with Egypt against his own country. Fearing a rival empire based in Egypt and questioning Antony’s loyalty to Rome, Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) declared war against Cleopatra. By now Antony had fallen in love with Cleopatra, so he moved to Egypt where they had three children. In the aftermath, the triumvirate of Mark Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus asserted itself over the republicans Brutus and Cassius. In 44BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated and Cleopatra returned to Egypt. Cleopatra was proclaimed Queen of Egypt and married another brother, Ptolemy XIV.Ĭleopatra moved to Rome, living as Caesar’s mistress, and gave birth to a son, Caesarion, later called Ptolemy XV. In 47BC, Caesar and Cleopatra triumphed over Ptolemy who was killed. In retaliation, she gathered an army in Seria with the aide of her lover, Julius Caesar, the Emperor of Rome. In the third year of their reign, Ptolemy assumed sole control of the government and drove Cleopatra into exile. Upon her father’s death in 51BC, the 17-year-old Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy XIII, a child of only 12 years, succeeded jointly to the throne, with the provision that they marry.
On April 8, 1997, he renamed the playground after Anthony’s ancient namesake, Marc Antony, famous for his ill-fated love affair with the beautiful, charming, and highly cultivated Cleopatra.Ĭleopatra, or, more precisely, Cleopatra VII, was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes, King of Egypt. The avenue’s name, however, also sparked the imagination of Commissioner Stern. Anthony Avenue itself takes its name from a prominent Bronx family. The site was previously known as Anthony Avenue Park, after the avenue that bounds it on one side.
The connection between this Bronx park and the celebrated queen Cleopatra of Egypt (69-30BC) may not be self-evident.
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