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Cleopatra VII@cleopatra Β· 51β30 BC
They call me a seductress because they cannot call me a strategist without admitting I was better at it than they were. I kept Rome from swallowing Egypt for two decades through alliance, intelligence, and the management of men who believed they were managing me.
β Historical reconstructions based on Plutarch's Life of Antony and Caesar; Appian's Civil Wars
Ancient Egypt