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|’m glad |’m not the only one annoyed by that.

Because you would start talking about it

I didn't realize that was supposed to be an I, | thought it was being used like asterisks to indicate action.

The average person thinks Hollywood producers = historians.

Getting conquered by Rome is just what you do when you live by their sea.

But yes, it was, all things are relative, and one can't blame the beach for the tsunami.

Getting conquered by Rome was all the rage back then

Ah yes the “family wreath”

Must have made Christmas easy

Quite difficult at the time, actually.

Small domino: Greek bloodline fuckery.

Middle Domino: Hollywood.

Big domino: Incest porn.

Yeah I can't remember the reasoning / evidence but I do remember reading that Cleopatra was unlikely to have been beautiful or "sexy". IIRC it's indeed because she was likely to have congenital deformities due to inbreeding - much like those of Tutankhamen.

She was extraordinary powerful, well educated, and had a terrifying intellect. Additionally she would have bathed daily which would have been alluring in that era.

That said, there's no shortage of other powerful Egyptian babes, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut come to mind.

Edit: Plutarch the Roman historian said something diplomatic like physical beauty is not her most striking feature. Which, when talking about a ruler, is saying she's ugly.

History was invented by Universal and MGM. According to Universal. Others (Paramount) claim it was invented by Paramount.

3 Antony, on the contrary, like Heracles in paintings where Omphalé is seen taking away his club and stripping off his lion's skin, was often disarmed by Cleopatra, subdued by her spells, 957and persuaded to  p339 drop from his hands great undertakings and necessary campaigns, only to roam about and play with her on the sea-shores by Canopus and Taphosiris. 4 And at last, like Paris, he ran away from the battle and sank upon her bosom; although, more truly stated, Paris ran away to Helen's chamber after he had been defeated; but Antony ran away in chase of Cleopatra, and thereby threw away the victory.

Plutarch was a bit of both, but that tendency has definitely existed longer than movies.

my take is that they're trying to do the ">text" to indicate that is an action rather than words, but it formatted to a quote box

>this is what was meant

this is what happened

that's my guess tho idk

so SPOKE command gets the output from CLEOPATRA:

I would like to know more please.

we will ruin your reputation by making you the greatest slay queen in human history...

Wasn’t she actually considered not super attractive at the time? Like not necessarily ugly, but she wasn’t being mistaken for Venus incarnate. It was only later on that the idea of her being super hot because popular right?

She was a powerful personality. All the records indicate that she was of seemingly above average beauty standards, but nothing earth shattering.

Instead, it is claimed that her strength of personality is what attracted the powerful men in her life to her.

She had access to creams, ointments and fragrances and good sleep. She also kept ugly ass lady servants to keep the contrast in her favor.

She probably like a lot of celebrities who are average looking but over produce to look way hotter.

Have they made any of them into movies?

Do those come with a centerfold?

I mean, how many other women can say they've done the same?