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FANCAST: Greek actress Tonia Sotiropoulou as Kleopatra VII, Hellenistic Queen of Egypt (69 BCE - 30 BCE)

“Kleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous. For ten generations her family had styled themselves pharaohs. The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Kleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor…[she] descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved…

A commanding woman versed in politics, diplomacy, and governance; fluent in nine languages; silver-tongued and charismatic, Kleopatra nonetheless seems the joint creation of Roman propagandists and Hollywood directors… [her] power has been made to derive from her sexuality, for obvious reason; as one of Caesar’s murderers had noted, ‘How much more attention people pay to their fears than to their memories!’ It has always been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.” ― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life ( for @tiny-librarian )