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Coin Shows Cleopatra's Ugly Truth
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| 2-14-2007
Posted on 02/14/2007 8:59:15 AM PST by blam
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To: Chode
I watched Virginia Wolfe as a teenager and I think its why I never got married.
Seriously.
To: windcliff
To: The Lumster
As Mr. Ditter's mom used to tell him (before I came along and swept him off his feet)
"I met a nice girl for you, she has a good personality and she makes her own clothes".
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posted on
02/14/2007 12:26:39 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: holymoly
Holymoly!
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posted on
02/14/2007 12:31:03 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: skepsel
The Secret History is by Procopius, a contemporary of Justinian and Theodora (who supposedly was a courtesan before she married Justinian). Petronius, the author of the Satyricon was much earlier, a contemporary of Nero.
To: Riverman94610
I read something a while back by a classics professor who is black...she believes Cleopatra is black despite the lack of evidence because her grandmother told her that was true.
Some, but not all, ancient Egyptians would qualify as "black" as the term is used in modern America, but there is no definite evidence that Cleopatra had any Egyptian ancestors...there was an awful lot of inbreeding in the Ptolemaic dyansty (brother-sister marriages imitating the native Egyptian practice).
Then there's Hannibal and St. Augustine, both claimed as black by some Afrocentrists.
To: blam
So we're judging the details of what the ancients "really looked like" by their depictions on coins?
In that case, I submit that Emperor Constantine was frighteningly pie-eyed, and had pupils so dilated that he was probably blind in the daytime.
To: Verginius Rufus
I have heard the Hannibal and Saint Augustine theories as well.Both of them were NORTH African and unlikely of Negroid ancestry.However,Hannibal recruited his army from many areas south of Carthage.I think I read many of his archers were from what is now Mauritania.
To: mainepatsfan
The most attractive thing about Cleopatra was her kingdom which was then the breadbasket of the Mediterranean.
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posted on
02/14/2007 12:46:21 PM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: SunkenCiv
Yikes--is that the Sphinx before or after 3500 years of sandstorms?
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posted on
02/14/2007 12:48:37 PM PST
by
exit82
(Defend our defenders--get off the fence.)
To: Riverman94610
I think there is a passage somewhere in one of St. Augustine's writings where he refers to black people as if he doesn't include himself in that description. There may have been some blacks in north Africa in antiquity but most of them seem to have been "Mediterranean" like the inhabitants of the other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
St. Paul was mistaken for an Egyptian by a Roman tribune (Acts 21.38), who clearly didn't assume that all Egyptians were black.
To: darkwing104
Or, it could've been a poorly made coin...
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:25:58 PM PST
by
Marie
(Unintended consequences.)
To: Marie
Or, it could've been a poorly made coin...Most likely
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:26:53 PM PST
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: wtc911
but the contact of her presence, if you lived with her, was irresistible;Yeah. Didn't she have her brother killed?
To: HEY4QDEMS
We know what Antony looked like. There are plenty of portrait busts of him still remaining. Here's two. The one on the right is from when he was a little older and a little heavier than the one on the left.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:33:36 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: blam
Geeze, another fact blown to smithereens.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:42:01 PM PST
by
Dustbunny
(The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: blam
How do we know that was supposed to be Cleopatra? Maybe she had a coin cast in the image of her mother or somebody else close to her.
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:44:09 PM PST
by
Jezebelle
(Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
To: Riverman94610
you prolly aren't alone...
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posted on
02/14/2007 1:45:14 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow, Cleo was no looker. She must have had, er, uh, other talents.
To: blam
The guy who made the coins probably never saw either of them. If this dumbass writer really thinks these coins are a true likeness of Anthony and Cleopatra, he's in the wrong business.
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