CLEOPATRA

This one, in expensive Parian marble, greatly resembling the Cleopatra of coin portraits, may be the most likely.

Given Pascal's quip -- "Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed" -- there is some irony in the missing fragment.

buonacoppi, Pics-UM, Marco F. Delminho and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo

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Dinesh ^club

The young woman holed up with Julius Caesar in the besieged palace of Alexandria was, then, neither Egyptian, nor , historically speaking, a pharaoh, nor necessarily related to Alexander the Great, nor even fully a Ptolemy, though she was as nearly as can be ascertained on all sides a Macedonian aristocrat. Her name, like her heritage, was entirely and profoundly Macedonian; “Cleopatra’ means “Glory of Her Fatherland”. . . . Page 23

Plutarch clearly notes that her beauty “was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no one could see her without being struck by it.” it was rather the “contact of her presence, it was lived with her, that was irresistible.” her personality and manner, he insists, were no less than “bewitching”. Time has done better than fail to wither in Cleopatra’s case; it has improved upon her allure. She came into her looks only years later. By the third century AD she would be described as “striking’ exquisite in appearance. By the Middle Ages, she was “famous for nothing but her beauty.” ~ Page 38

10 months ago. Edited 10 months ago.

Ulrich John ^club

A great ‚portrait‘, Dinesh !

10 months ago.

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