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She knew neither that she was living in the first century BC nor in the Hellenistic Age, both of them later constructs. (The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra.
The history of representations of Cleopatra provides one of the clearest instances of the conviction that whiteness is the pinnacle of human beauty. Cleopatra became a byword for feminine beauty in European culture, but in the process she had to be represented as white. As
No text more thoroughly penetrated Cleopatra's world. In an age infatuated with history and calibrated in glory, Homer's work was the Bible of the day.
It is notable that when she is not condemned for being too bold and masculine, Cleopatra is taken to task for being unduly frail and feminine.
THOMASINA:
But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
from Egypt: "You
With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
(whose initials were probably OCTAVIAN).
Bernice III was the first queen of Egypt to rule without a consort in over a millennium. Though her reign was brief, her example inspired her descendant Cleopatra to rule alone.
CHAPTER LXI THE SUCCESS OF LADY AUGUSTUS
Augustus ruled the world, but Livia ruled Augustus.
My beautiful intellectual. My mad Egyptologist.
Ometimes the King is a Woman.
Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!
Paulinus, everyone knows. Say the word, and I'll run the bitch over with my chariot
Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped and lived a lovely life sailing along the Nile without him and his big ideas ruining her kingdom.
the story of a queen named Cassiopeia who lived forever on a throne in the sky.
IOU one Roman praetor.
She will be returned safely.
Sit tight.
Otherwise you'll be killed.
XOX, the Hunters of Artemis.
On the subject of Egypt, Ellen Cherry was so vague she thought Ramses II was a jazz piano player. From that, we might conclude that she was equally dumb about jazz.
JULIA: Oldest daughter of Julia and Agrippa. Owner of the smallest dwarf in Rome. Exiled in AD 8.
Cassiopeia? She was a queen long ago, in a different part of the world. The stories say she was very beautiful, but very proud. Too proud. She smack-talked some goddesses and got herself stuck up there for all eternity.
It was rare to find a member of the family who did not liquidate a relative or two, Cleopatra VII included.
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
I am Caesar not Rex
Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.
She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk onto that stage. She wore nine-inch-heels and a dress that shone in the multi-colored lighting, glimmering through the haze created by the smoke machines and cigarettes.
A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted.
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek ... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.
Today we are all Egyptians.
Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.
Despairing Dido, queen of ancient Carthage, slain by her own hand as her magnificent lover Aeneas lifts anchor and sails away forever: this is one of the most haunting and permanent images of the classical world.
Is she not beautiful? Is she not powerful? Is she not regal? Is she not YOU?
I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.
A queen who owned her body, her life, her destiny, and never apologized for it.
Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?
How you are in this place that has been sealed since the time of Caesar Augustus?" one of the archaeologists demanded in amazement.
"I was looking for my sister," Dan quipped.
"Your sister?"
"Oh - here she is." Dan reached through the opening and hauled out an equally grubby Amy.
But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium?
What millions died that Caesar might be great!
If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?
She was a queen, yet saw through the thrones and palaces of this world.
Helen of Troy, a hooker from Upstate New York. Never got a dinner!
Egypt tasted as Eleanor remembered: gritty, dry, and full of a hundred thousand secrets. She licked her lips and peered down the long corridor before her. A shadow moved across the ancient tomb walls.
I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.
She did not look like my sister, she did not look like any mortal woman at all. She carried herself as if she were the greatest queen that had ever been born. We
her youth passed in renaissance glory
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.
A fortune teller long ago warned him he would die in Egypt, and she walks like an Egyptian.
The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.
as the old pharaoh was laid to rest, allowing her brother to claim his place fully upon the Isis Throne.
Caesar was a serial seducer of married women.
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?
Polybius more than 150 years earlier,
As Anthony said to Cleopatra as he opened a crate of ale: Oh, I say, some girls are bigger than others, Some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers.
Lepida, has anyone ever told you that you're a cruel spiteful selfish slut? ... You're vicious. You're unprincipled. You mistreat your slaves and abuse your daughter. And furthermore you're the worst, most neglectful, most criminal wife in Rome. I think we can go now.
Julius Caesar's wife, who said to Julius, We are not naming our son Sid! Never got a dinner!
Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.
Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was get it next to the Cleopatra and switch the signs.
The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all the wonders of this brave new century should draw me from my grief and yet I can not heal my heart; and so the mind suffers; the mind closes as if it were a flower without sun
The Queen of Monsea, in trousers and short hair, looking for all the world like a miniature pirate.
The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD).
I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.
Hermes?" Apollo hissed - actually hissed like an angry lion. "That little, punk-ass bitch.
Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom? Caesar
I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. ACHILLES, it reads. And beside it, PATROCLUS.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you.
Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!
Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.
Infernal woman, you nearly gave me an apoplexy. They ought to count you among the ten plagues of Egypt!
The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?"
"Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt - a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.
Istam terra de fossam premat,
gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet!
(As for her, let her be buried deep in earth,
and heavy may the soil lie on her unholy head.)
This is now our life's work: we will create the Egypt they died for.
I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!
She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?
The Queen is the ultimate dictator.
My lady, it is the lady empress Sextilia Augusta, mother to - ' 'She knows to whom I am mother. The entire world knows to whom I am mother. The entire world shares my shame.' The empress's voice was sharp
Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.
What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
You used to call me Augustus.
Queen. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. [225] Hamlet
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.
She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
She was what is called a fine looking woman for her time of life,
Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?
There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")
While Egyptian speakers learned Greek, it was rare that anyone ventured in the opposite direction. To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.
The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
Rome is an astonishment!
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress.
Foreign lady once remarked to the wife of a Spartan commander that the women of Sparta were the only women in the world who could rule men. "We are the only women who raise men," the Spartan lady replied ...
She ate the stars and swallowed the earth,
She is the girl with all the power.
When asked by a woman from Attica:'Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?', she said: 'Because we are the only ones who give birth to men.
Caesar. The Ides of March are come. Soothsayer. [2] Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
She was beholden to no man, held her tongue for none, she would stand before the gods themselves and inform them of what they could do with their immortal souls.
i am queen of percha, sullenest of the seven seas, Behold my dusky desert beauty". She wiped of her scarf and did a terrible belly dance.
I am ancient Alina.
I know things about power that you can barely guess
Egypt is the Nile, the Nile Egypt.
My friend, she is a woman." "No, no, you are deceived
she is a queen.