Who Was The Greatest Cleopatra?
· 50 min
Episode Who Was The Greatest Cleopatra?
Was Cleopatra actually Egyptian?
It's a surprisingly important question. When most people think of Cleopatra, they have a specific person in mind. The Egyptian queen who married Julius Caesar and loved Mark Antony, and nearly ruled the Roman Empire for herself. But she was merely the final chapter in the long story of the Ptolemaic rulers of ancient Egypt. Who were the women who came before her? And though she is the most famous, does that mean she was the greatest Cleopatra?
Matt Lewis and Dr Deirdre Klokow unpack the mighty and sometimes mysterious legacy of the Cleopatras. Keep an eye out for her book, The Seleucids And Their Land, coming out in 2027.
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Hosted by: Matt Lewis
Edited by: Robin McConnell
Produced by: Robin McConnell
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Ptolemy's Lament by Sarah Schachner
The Alexandrian Pleiad by Sarah Schachner
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