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Originally Posted by eduakator
Love this show!! Questions - Cleopatra looks real trappy to me! Anybody else feel that way? What does she possess that she gets all the men to kill/change for her? Why is she so light compared to the men of Egypt?
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It's been a while since I've watched Rome, but historically speaking, Cleo is the descendant of Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals. She's not Egyptian by blood, just ruler of Egyptians by birth. I don't think there was a lot of intermarriage between the Hellenic rulers and the Egyptian locals. In fact, they follwed the Pharonic tradition of marrying siblings. Hence why there's a long string of Ptolemy's and Cleopatra's on the throne, they all married each other and named the kids the same thing.