"Weird things you didn't know about Cleopatra " Topic
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| Tango01 | 18 Jun 2018 3:27 p.m. PST |
"She's appeared in dozens of Hollywood movies and at least a bazillion books, from biographies to historical novels to science fiction. (Yes, Cleopatra in Space is totally a thing.) Always beautiful, always exotic, always with a bunch of beads in her hair and black eyeliner that makes her look sort of like Captain Jack Sparrow, Cleopatra has attained a kind of immortality that few of her contemporaries ever did — except maybe for Julius Caesar, who attained an especially weird sort of immortality now that he shares a name with an obstetric surgery.
More than 1,500 years before the reign of Elizabeth I of England, Cleopatra proved that women were capable of ruling nations, and that they could do it with intelligence, grace, and sometimes brutality. But much of what we know — and don't know — about the queen of the Nile comes from history that has been fictionalized, refictionalized, and fictionalized some more, so much that the made-up stuff is sometimes better-known than the facts, and the facts themselves are kind of surprising…."
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Armand |
| goragrad | 19 Jun 2018 1:46 p.m. PST |
Most (nearly all) of those with a decent knowledge of history. Not sure if I had seen the bit about Zenobia though. |
Old Glory  | 19 Jun 2018 4:22 p.m. PST |
I didn't know one thing about Cleopatra anyway ??? Regards
Russ Dunaway |
| Tango01 | 20 Jun 2018 12:08 p.m. PST |
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