Posted on 03/15/2005 8:10:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
You'd like my tagline.
Perhaps Kate is a homely woman who has a prejudice against accomplished beauties.
More speculation. Here's mine. We know that Julius Caesar & Mark Antony lived during a period when Roman Generals personally paid their armies. Don't you suppose that these 2 generals realized that to ally themselves with the Egyptian treasury meant that they could buy/coerce/conquer Rome itself? Caesar himself was the junior partner of a triumverate of more accomplished politicians & military men. He had to find a creative way to overthrow his superiors. Mark Antony may have been following his mentor's blueprint.
What was wrong with Herod? oh .. never mind.
For one thing, he was married. And to a woman (I know what you were thinkin').
For another, as seen in the pics that survive of Cleo, she would have fooled the detective skills of Austin Powers ("that's a man, man").
She had a reputation as a libertine -- just like the Elephant Man had a little puffiness around the eyes. Contrary to the Cleo partisans who have curiously emerged over the years, those stories weren't cooked up to give her a bad name. They were true, although it would be easy to convince me that they were exaggerated a little. Herod must have been aware of this, or become aware of it at that moment, and found it distasteful, probably because we'd regard him as an unreconstructed chauvanist.
Anyway, he complained about it, and the complaint has somehow survived nearly 2000 years. :'o
;')
"This post makes her sound like a career power lawyer in a business suit."
Funerals are for the living. :')
"Cleopatra, beautiful queen of ancient Egypt and seducer of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, has been revealed as short and frumpish in a new exhibition. Eleven statues previously thought to portray other queens have recently been reassigned and represent her as plain looking with a touch of sternness. Not more than 150 cm tall she appears to have had bad teeth and to have been plump. She was nevertheless a brilliant linguist and spoke Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic and Egyptian. (Aust. 26/03/01)"
http://www.htav.asn.au/news/history_in_the_news.html
Cleopatra had a nice asp.
Ah, a cunning...
For the host of a kid's show, you've got quite a sense of humor. ;')
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