# Later Plutarch and encyclopedia accounts print the Donations of Alexandria as a public territorial claim

Date: 1921

## The fact

Loeb Antony and Britannica print the Donations of Alexandria as a ceremony assigning lands to [Cleopatra](/people/cleopatra)’s children as received. The dated carrier is that later narrative. Polarising Roman opinion against a Hellenistic queen is the path. Not a Hollywood scene.

## Context

Medium confidence on exact territorial wording. High that the received story is a public dynastic claim that enraged Rome as later told.

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.

## Evidence and sources

Official museum, UNESCO, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Perseus — Plutarch, Antony (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Cleopatra: https://factrail.ai/people/cleopatra

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cleopatra-queen-of-Egypt
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cl-donations-alexandria-as-received