cleopatrasdaughter:historical figures → cleopatra vii “Among the most famous women to have lived, C
cleopatrasdaughter:historical figures → cleopatra vii “Among the most famous women to have lived, Cleopatra VII ruled for twenty-two years. She lost a kingdom once, regained it, nearly lost it again, amassed an empire, lost it all. A goddess as a child, a queen at eighteen, a celebrity soon thereafter, she was an object of speculation and veneration, gossip and legend, even in her own time. Like all lives that lend themselves to poetry, Cleopatra’s was one of dislocations and disappointments. She grew up amid unsurpassed luxury, to inherit a kingdom in decline. The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor. Thirteen hundred year separate Cleopatra from Nefertiti. The pyramids already sported graffiti. The Sphinx had undergone a major restoration, a thousand years earlier. And the glory of the once great Ptolemaic Empire had dimmed. Cleopatra’s was an era of outsize, intriguing personalities. At its end the greatest actors of the age exist abruptly. A world comes crashing down after them.” Insp. -- source link
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