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Later lives print the killing of Caesarion after 30 BCE as Octavian’s act in her dynastic file

Encyclopedia and Plutarch-in-English print that Ptolemy XV Caesarion was killed after Alexandria fell. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Encyclopedia and Plutarch-in-English print that Ptolemy XV Caesarion was killed after Alexandria fell. The dated carrier is that later narrative. She is not the killer; the row sits on her page as the end of the house she named.

Context

Complex: Octavian’s agents as later told. Medium confidence on exact circumstances.

Cleopatra is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A printed killing of Caesarion is not a 30 BCE baptismal register.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Cleopatra

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.24 · verified

    Named Ptolemaic queen as heading of coins and later narratives. Roman rivals, mint workers, and later studios share the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLater lives print the killing of Caesarion after 30 BCE as Octavian’s act in her dynastic file
    2. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 June 1921 · verified

    A printed killing of Caesarion is not a 30 BCE baptismal register.

    • Having a say in government

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Protection of Minority Rights

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — CleopatraEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Perseus — Plutarch, AntonyPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCleopatra
  2. contributed toFactLater lives print the killing of Caesarion after 30 BCE as Octavian’s act in her dynastic file
  3. weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Later lives print the killing of Caesarion after 30 BCE as Octavian’s act in her dynastic file. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cl-caesarion-killing-as-later

https://factrail.ai/facts/cl-caesarion-killing-as-later

Accessed 16 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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