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The average person thinks Hollywood producers = historians.

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

Nono you don't get it, she wanted to be the horse.

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?

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

I would like to know more please.

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:

|'m guessing it's to spur engagement.

And, we fell for |t.

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

Because you would start talking about it

Small domino: Greek bloodline fuckery.

Middle Domino: Hollywood.

Big domino: Incest porn.

Ah yes the “family wreath”

Must have made Christmas easy

Quite difficult at the time, actually.

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.

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

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.

Yeah, it is the exact opposite of what OP claims. Historians are basically the only ones constantly demystifying her, while her legend as a sexy femme fatale lives on in the general public mind (thanks pretty much exclusively to Hollywood, because let's face it, noone would know she existed without them).

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?