Cleo relationship with subjects

• start of reign

  Unpopular with Alexandrians who saw her submitting to Rome which Ptolemy XIII advisors used against her
• Desperate to gain support when she forced all grain to be shipped to Alexandria after poor harvest
• Cleo having army to march back to Alexandria shows she still had a lot of supporters in and out of Egypt
• Caesar victory in Egypt didnt do a lot to help her with her popularity
• Extremely unpopular on return to power and decision to process down the Nile may have been to remove her from Alexandrian hostility while also promoting herself as queen to rest of Egypt
• During relationship with Antony

  She begins associating herself the goddess Isis as 'New Isis' - draw Cleopatra closer to both Egyptian natives and Greek population of Alexandria
• Death of Ptolemy XII and promotion of Caesarion meant she focused on improving Egypts fortune and not her own
• Even after heavy debts of Ptolemy XII reign and poor harvest Cleo was efficient with rule, extending territory and even if it only gained roman support she would have gained popularity