Cleopatra?!? And how, pray tell, do they KNOW what she looked like?? I smell a rat.
Actually, when the "Treasure's of Cleopatra' exhibit rolled thru town, they made a big point out of the 'fact' that Cleo wasn't attractive. Of course that just turned on me and my buddy all the more, as we fugured she must have been AWFULLY GOOD at her "arts" to get so many big wigs to do her bidding...
Cleopatra was reputedly not a physical beauty (forget Liz Taylor's 1963 bosom), but she had a deep rich voice, was a thinker, and unusually for women then, kept up on the current events of her time, making her a fascinating conversationalist.