cleopatra

More time has passed between the building of the ancient pyramids and queen Cleopatra, than queen Cleopatra and now.

You live in closer historical proximity to Cleopatra than she did to the first builders of pyramids.

Questions about Cleopatra and so forth may have been to see how educated an applicant was.

So after he came back from hanging out with Cleopatra in Egypt he came back and set the calendar on auto-pilot.

It is worth noting that Cleopatra was closer in time to the invention of the Internet than the building of the pyramids.

Would Cleopatra be a legend nowadays if we could browse her teenage posts and selfie shots on facebook?

This is not surprising considering that Cleopatra lived closer to the first moon landing than she did to the construction of that pyramid.

How did Cleopatra come to be such an iconic figure in history?

> Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid.

I think most people forget that Cleopatra was of Greek ancestry (being a Ptolemy) and a player in the relatively recent classical world.

Modern media's exploration of Marvel's canon or the expansion of the Star Wars mythos is no different than Shakespeare rebooting Cleopatra and updating her with analogs to contemporary politics.

I do recall reading about Cleopatra and a box of bees.

That Cleopatra was in fact a guy from Bronx is "objectively wrong".

Recently, the movie "Cleopatra" was on TV.

“Zeus and Cleopatra”, “The Merchant of Venus”, “Othello and Oedipus”… By modern thinking, perhaps this would have been better.

I think if someone knows anything at all about Cleopatra beyond "something to do with Egypt", they'd know she was a contemporary of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony (thanks to Shakespeare at least), even if they don't know anything about the Ptolemaic dynasty.

And Egypt is indisputably Arab today, although of course ancient Egypt (as recent as Cleopatra, at least) was not.

Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and many others became legend through the retelling and deformation of their stories.

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