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    Cleopatra VII, 69-30 BC (52 posts)
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    Author: * Cornellia Cornelius - 8 Posts on this thread out of 2,936 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Dec 13, 2004 - 07:26

    It also showed up here on Discovery Channel.

    But I didn't make it past the first 20 minutes. The profiler in question showed a complete lack of knowledge of her subjects, preferring instead to judge them on modern values.

    Otherwise she would have known why Cleopatra committed suicide - she'd gambled everything to keep Egypt free and return it to its former glory and lost.

    And why her suicide was a blow to Octavian - he would have sealed his reputation as a great conqueror if he'd brought back Cleopatra, the pharoah of the richest country in the world and the one woman who'd made Rome tremble, and had her march in his triumph before killing her.

    There was no way the proud and capable Pharoah would have ever allowed that.


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