It's 48 BCE, and you're Cleopatra VII, the 21-year-old queen of Egypt. Well, technically, you're the former queen because your annoying little brother and husband, Ptolemy XIII, kicked you out and stole your throne. Yeah, you heard that right, brother AND husband. He was only 12 at the time, but hey, that's Ptolemaic family tradition for you. You were both supposed to rule together after your father died three years earlier, but apparently your baby brother-husband had bigger ambitions than sharing power. You wake up in a cramped safe house outside Alexandria, and honestly, this is not how you pictured your royal life going. The room smells like fish and desperation, and you can hear your brother's soldiers patrolling the streets outside. But today is different. Today, you're going to do something so audacious, so brilliantly insane, that people will still be talking about it 2,000 years later. Here's what's happening in your world right now: Rome is literally destroying itself. The entire Roman Republic is engulfed in a massive civil war between two former allies: Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. And guess what? Egypt is caught right in the middle of this mess.