Sheehan is also criticized for writing "The Hellenistic age came to an end with the death of a famous queen in 30 BC. She was Cleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic (that is Greek) ruler of Egypt." Janko calls this a fabrication, saying it is well known that Cleopatra was Macedonian, and that more serious Western writers clearly highlight the Macedonian ethnic ancestry of Ptolemy and Cleopatra.