Movie
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. Her first language was Koine Greek, and she is the only Ptolemaic ruler known to have learned the Egyptian language, among several…
↗ WikipediaLongform community posts about this title
Source At an astronomical $44 million, "Cleopatra" was the most expensive film of its day and remained so for decades, eclipsing "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), which cost a mere $17 million. However, not all the expense ended up in what could be seen on screen. At one point, "Cleopatra" was the only 20th Century Fox film in production. "They had nowhere else to charge overhead," recalled Tom Mankiewicz, son o…More
No comments yet — be the first.
One of the great ironies of world history can be found in the fact that of all the rulers of Ancient Egypt the best known is the one the least deserving, at least on the account of that great country losing its independence on her watch and not regaining it for the most of next two millennia. This might be explained with the fact that winners write history, and in this particular case the winners were Romans, whose…More
*This publication was also written in* SPANISH *and* PORTUGUESE . World history is marked by the existence of personalities, which for some reasons have become classics. One of these more well-known personalities (who, by the way, is seen by part of the population only as something "fictitious") is Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Through her power of perception and strategic perspectives, she was one of the big names…More
