What kind of ruler was Cleopatra?

As it turned out, Cleopatra was not a very good ruler, she lost the country. During the time that she had power she was no better or worse than any other Egyptian monarch. She had her share of dissidents and plotters, just as her predecessors had. She also had her supporters, although they were mostly Roman. The one major achievement she was able to negotiate was the granting of large territories of the mid-east to Egypt, in return for her support of Antony's Parthian campaign. However this expansion only lasted as long as she did. Rome, in the person of Octavian, quickly put things back the way they were upon his defeat of Cleopatra and Antony.