Cesar sang praises to her mouth, which could be interpreted to be about her actual mouth, her oratory skills, or her oral skills. Knowing how Romans loved innuendo, probably both.

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.

One theory is that she was a bit odd-looking, but pointing that out would likely result in a painful death, so everybody erred on the side of flattery.

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True. She was more seductive and alluring than plain ol sexy (according to my readings).

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).

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.

It looks to be written by Arsinoë IV or maybe even Ptolemy XIV as it refers to «my brother», so it’s probably biased

The average person thinks Hollywood producers = historians.

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.

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

She probably was legitimately attractive by Roman cultural norms and almost certainly leveraged that when dealing with Rome. The smear campaign was more playing that aspect up while downplaying the fact she was a genuine once-in-a-generation genius than making up things about how sexy she was.

I would like to know more please.

|'m guessing it’s to spur engagement.

And, we fell for |t.

so SPOKE command gets the output from CLEOPATRA:

It’s the letter “i” but double capitalized.

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

Have they made any of them into movies?

|’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.

It’s not meant to be an I, it’s meant to be an action. They’re not writing “I commanded an army”, they’re writing “commanded an army”.

No, it was not a good choice. But that’s what they were probably doing.

Honestly, my brain just didn’t even process it as an I. I just looked over it and started the sentences without them.

Anyway, why the fuck did they do that?

The historians had to lay that pipe somewhere

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

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