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How Did Cleopatra Rule a Complex Kingdom Under Roman Pressure? - Cleopatra's Statecraft and the Fall of Ptolemaic Egypt | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most of what we know about Cleopatra comes from the people who defeated her. The familiar image of the exotic seductress who destroyed Mark Antony and died from an asp bite is a political fiction, crafted by Roman poets and historians who needed to transform a Roman civil war into a foreign conflict against a dangerous eastern queen. This episode examines the gap between that enduring legend and the surviving documentary evidence of a very different ruler.
By looking past the hostile…
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