<sod>Cleopatra is a [[pseudonym]] for an author whose real name has been lost. She is not the same person as [[Cleopatra VII]], nonetheless she may be referred to as Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt in some later works,<ref name="Jack lindsay" /> who also had an interest in alchemy. This incorrect naming was possibly done on purpose.<ref name=hypatia>{{cite book|last=Alic|first=Margaret|title=Hypatia's Heritage: A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century|publisher=Beacon Press|location=Boston|page=36-41,194}}</ref> As we noted, she was linked to the famous Queen Kleopatra to whom the Arab writer Ibn-Wahs-Chijiah attributed a book on poisons and to whom the Romans gave a book on cosmetics.<ref name="Jack lindsay">{{cite book|last=Lindsay|first=Jack|title=The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt|date=1970|publisher=Barnes and Noble|location=New York}}</ref>  One example of this can be found in Basillica Philosophica by Johann Daniel Mylius (1618), where her seal is pictured alongside the motto: "The divine is hidden from the people according to the wisdom of the Lord".<ref>Stanislas Klossowski de Rola.  ''The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century.'' 1988. p. 150.</ref> Cleopatra is also used as a character within the dialogue of the alchemical texts themselves. She is also mistaken for the same as Cleopatra the Physician. The two lived supposedly during the same time and are said to have similar styles in their writing, both having grand imagery. <ref name="marianne">{{cite book|author1=Marianne Offereins|author2=Renate Strohmeier|editor1-last=Apotheker|editor1-first=Jan|editor2-last=Sarkadi|editor2-first=Livia Simon|title=European Women in Chemistry|publisher=Wiley-VCH GmbH & Co. KGaA|isbn=978-3-527-32956-4|pages=5,6}}</ref><eod>
<sod>Cleopatra is a [[pseudonym]] for an author whose real name has been lost. She is not the same person as [[Cleopatra VII]], nonetheless she may be referred to as Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt in some later works.<ref name="Jack lindsay" /> One example of this can be found in Basillica Philosophica by [[Johann Daniel Mylius]] (1618), where her seal is pictured alongside the motto: "The divine is hidden from the people according to the wisdom of the Lord".<ref>Stanislas Klossowski de Rola.  ''The Golden Game: Alchemical Engravings of the Seventeenth Century.'' 1988. p. 150.</ref> This incorrect naming was possibly done on purpose.<ref name=hypatia>{{cite book|last=Alic|first=Margaret|title=Hypatia's Heritage: A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century|publisher=Beacon Press|location=Boston|page=36-41,194}}</ref> She is also conflated with Cleopatra the Physician. The two lived supposedly during the same time and are said to have similar styles in their writing, both having grand imagery. <ref name="marianne">{{cite book|author1=Marianne Offereins|author2=Renate Strohmeier|editor1-last=Apotheker|editor1-first=Jan|editor2-last=Sarkadi|editor2-first=Livia Simon|title=European Women in Chemistry|publisher=Wiley-VCH GmbH & Co. KGaA|isbn=978-3-527-32956-4|pages=5,6}}</ref> Cleopatra is used as a character within the dialogue of the alchemical texts themselves.<eod>