So Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were seduced by her for her mind? Yeah, I really believe that. Even 2,000 years ago, things weren't that different.
Both Ceasar and Antony could have practically any woman they wanted, willing or not. I'm sure that didn't change after they had been 'seduced' by another politically powerful leader. Sure, Antony may have left his wife for Cleopatra, but is there any real doubt that he probably hit the brothels on a regular basis or had slaves around for that sort of thing? The emperor Augustus, certainly no ascetic when it came to sex, seduction and adultry, nonetheless hypocritcally chastised Antony about his licentiousness, which was well known. All this while Antony was floating down the Nile in his free time with the Ptolemic Queen. I'd say Cleopatra's real attraction was as that of Jacqueline Bouvier; attractive enough, but with a pedigree that allowed her to move through the stratosphere of high society, which was her natural environment. Cleopatra was just a ancient manifestation of that.
She may have bedazzled Julius Caesar with her brains,but Marc Antony was ONLY interested in sex...her intelligence wouldn't have factored into his lusting after her at all.
Why do you have difficulty believing Caesar would be attracted to a beautiful mind?
A woman with a great mind is a most wondrously attractive thing :-).
You should have seen her Frontal Lobes.
Yeah, and they read Playboy for the intellectual articles.
These folks don't understand how the MIND of males work.
Trust me ... it wasn't her "mind" that seduced them. It was her looks and what she did with her body. Of course the mind had a hand in it but the intelluctual aspect they are trying to promote wasn't what seduced them.
This looks like an add for radical feminism.