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12/9/2018 7:58:59 AM
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RE: let us continue to speak logically about morta
Did you know that Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt?
She had to kill off her siblings, but if she hadn't killed them, they would have killed her.
She was extremely well-educated, something like a polymath. People think she may have spoken as many as eleven or twelve languages.
The common myth is that she used a snake to kill herself, but nobody really knows how she died. If she used a snake, it was more likely a cobra than a viper, but since she was a master chemist, I don't see why she would have opted for something as unpleasant as a snake unless she had no choice.
She was unquestionably a psychopath. Movies make her out to be hopelessly in love with Julius Caesar, but she was incapable of loving anyone. Probably the only reason she had a child by Caesar was to ally with the Roman Empire. Very likely this is also why she had a relationship with Mark Antony.
As a Machiavellian prince, she was perfect in every way -- ruthless, fear-based, and a brilliant propagandist.
Nobody today really knows what she looked like. Egypt used a barter system, so her coins were minted solely as propaganda tools (well, and as an exchange medium for trade with the Romans). On these coins, the image is not an accurate likeness but instead a Greek profile calculated to appeal to Mediterranean sensibilities. No one knows exactly why there are almost no other likenesses, or why the rare ones in existence seem to contradict one another. The best explanation is that Augustus had them destroyed.
She was probably the greatest political strategist of her age. If Julius Caesar had survived -- if the Roman Republic hadn't succumbed to the civil wars among Lepidus, Antony, and Augustus (then called Octavian) -- she would probably have won the whole show.
