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preserved but also wished to save her children, could not reconcile her
roles as mother and queen. 104 While on the road Caesarion received
a report he would be made king, something that Octavian deliberated
at length about, but eventually he decided that it was impossible for
competing heirs of Julius Caesar to survive, and Caesarion was killed
as he returned to Alexandria. Octavian was advised on this by the court
philosopher Areios Didymos, who astutely pointed out that there was
room in the world for only one Caesar. 105 Antyllus, the son of Antonius
and Fulvia, was also executed. A less famous, but signifi cant, casualty
was the 16-year-old priest of Ptah, Petubastes IV, who died on 31 July.
He was a cousin of Cleopatra’s, and his death conveniently removed the
most prominent Egyptian claimant to the throne. 106 On 29 August 30
b.c., the Egyptian New Year, Ptolemaic rule came to an end.
150 Cleopatra