Her dad was Ptolemy XII; lucky no. XIII, 10 years old at the time, became her co-ruler & husband
The life of a woman in classical antiquity was dictated greatly by her father, who 
..... and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII married on another and became co-
rulers of ... time, Ptolemy was merely 10 years old to Cleopatra's 18, and soon it 
became... [DOC] [TLE] POWER AND PRESENCE - Digital Collections at Texas State ... [PAR] Cleopatra is poignantly referred to as queen without a face in contrast to ... 
Cleopatra's father Ptolemy XII, known as Auteles (the flute player), had an ... of 
his empire to his eldest son Ptolemy XIII, who was only ten years old, and ... Once 
again largely ignoring that her brothers even existed as her co-rulers, .... 
Adamson 10.