Why do people admire Cleopatra?

She was the only person in the entire Ptolemaic dynasty who could speak Egyptian; she was in fact a master of 9 languages.

She had herself rolled up in a carpet and ordered her soldiers to take her inside Ptolemy's palace where Julius Caesar was staying. She did it because she wanted to seduce Caesar, so that he would make her queen of Egypt again.

She was the last Pharaoh of Egypt. After her death, Egypt became a Roman territory.

She was beautiful and wore eyeliner!