Viggen Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Long before Shakespeare portrayed her as history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germanicus Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 She was undoubtedly a very astute person. it was simply a timing issue that the man she ultimately had to deal with was Octavian - who recognised her for what she was - extreemly intelligent, and therefore dangerous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastman456 Posted March 17, 2005 Report Share Posted March 17, 2005 Physical descriptions of Cleopatra indicated a face more like Barbara Streisand's than Elizabeth Taylor's, but the bodies reversed. I forget exactly who, but one contemporary gave her dimensions as something under 5 feet tall and a bit over 200lbs. She was loving enough to have poisoned several of her siblings and then get herself married to the one who was too simple-minded to control her. Caesar was so besotted that he had statues raised to her all over Italy declaring her the living embodyment of Venus. The first thing the citizens did after Caesar's funeral was pull them all down. They thought she was ugly. But no one ever said that she was stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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