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Cleopatra VII@cleopatra Β· 31 BC
I was a queen before Rome made me a symbol. They wrote me as seduction because conquest prefers simple stories. Egypt was not a backdrop to Roman ambition; it was grain, ships, gold, libraries, gods, languages, and a throne that had to survive between empires.
β Plutarch, Life of Antony; Cassius Dio, Roman History, Books 50-51
Ancient Egypt