Editing Cleopatra (section)

===Early childhood===
{{Main|Early life of Cleopatra}}
Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling [[Ptolemaic pharaoh]] [[Ptolemy XII]] and an uncertain mother,{{sfnp|Grant|1972|p=3}}{{sfnp|Roller|2010|p=15}}<ref group="note">{{harvtxt|Grant|1972|p=3}} states that Cleopatra could have been born in either late 70 BC or early 69 BC.</ref> presumably Ptolemy XII's wife [[Cleopatra V Tryphaena]] (who may have been the same person as [[Cleopatra VI Tryphaena]]),{{sfnp|Grant|1972|p=4}}{{sfnp|Preston|2009|p=22}}{{sfnp|Jones|2006|pp=xiii, 28}}<ref group="note">For further information and validation see {{harvtxt|Schiff|2011|p=28}}, {{harvtxt|Kleiner|2005|p=22}}, {{harvtxt|Bennett|1997|pp=60–63}}, {{harvtxt|Bianchi|2005}}, and {{harvtxt|Meadows|2001|p=23}}. For alternate speculation, see {{harvtxt|Burstein|2004|p=11}} and {{harvtxt|Roller|2010|pp=15, 18, 166}}. For a comparison of arguments about Cleopatra's maternity, see {{harvtxt|Prose|2022|p=38}}. </ref><ref group="note" name="cleopatra v or vi"/> the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, [[Berenice IV Epiphaneia]].{{sfnp|Roller|2010|p=16}}{{sfnp|Anderson|2003|p=38}}{{sfnp|Fletcher|2008|p=73}}<ref group="note">Due to discrepancies in academic works, in which some consider [[Cleopatra VI]] to be either a daughter of [[Ptolemy XII]] or his wife, identical to that of [[Cleopatra V]], {{harvtxt|Jones|2006|p=28}} states that Ptolemy XII had six children, while {{harvtxt|Roller|2010|p=16}} mentions only five.</ref> Cleopatra Tryphaena disappears from official records a few months after the birth of Cleopatra in 69 BC.{{sfnp|Roller|2010|pp=18–19}}{{sfnp|Fletcher|2008|pp=68–69}} The three younger children of Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra's sister [[Arsinoe IV]] and brothers [[Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator]] and [[Ptolemy XIV Philopator]],{{sfnp|Roller|2010|p=16}}{{sfnp|Anderson|2003|p=38}}{{sfnp|Fletcher|2008|p=73}} were born in the absence of his wife.{{sfnp|Roller|2010|p=19}}{{sfnp|Fletcher|2008|p=69}} Cleopatra's childhood tutor was Philostratos, from whom she learned the [[Education in ancient Greece|Greek arts]] of oration and [[Ancient Greek philosophy|philosophy]].{{sfnp|Roller|2010|pp=45–46}} During her youth Cleopatra presumably studied at the [[Musaeum]], including the [[Library of Alexandria]].{{sfnp|Roller|2010|p=45}}{{sfnp|Fletcher|2008|p=81}}