History Summarized: Cleopatra

Dust off your ancient Greek because its time to take a look at the final Pharaoh of Egypt: Cleopatra!

Further reading: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

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[OverlySarcasticProductions]

My mistake on the translation at the 2 minute mark – thanks for letting me know – I guess that's what I get for dropping Greek after three semesters.

[thykappa]

Cleopatra: A genuinely fun person to talk to as well as a caring queen for her kingdom.
Writers: *b* *o* *o* *b*

[Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

*Cleopatra:* "Oh no! We're stuck in a besieged royal palace for six months! What're we going to do?"
*Caesar:* _"...Well..."_

[WateverWatever]

Cleopatra:
She Came, She Saw, _She Cared_

[alejnahusic]

Octavian:”...Unter that crown what are you?”
Cleopatra: “goddess, genius, billionaire.”

[spaghettiappletaterghost]

Cleopatra: I can speak ten languages, I am one of the smartest people in the ancient world, I reformed my country to make it a booming economy, I devoted all of my time towards running my country and I got together with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Historians: You got together with Caesar and Mark Antony?? Wow what a Queen.

[Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

It's against the Jedi code to form romantic attachment with anyone regardless of how smart, powerful, or polylingual they may be. That rule was probably added to prevent situations like this.

[FuzzyStripetail]

It's refreshing, like a scented candle, to learn that Cleopatra was more than just a Caesar salad ordered to seduce Antonius (and a few other croutons) but actually a vibrant, intelligent, compassionate, and world-changing woman of incredible pose, prosperity, power, and passion.

[izzy]

A product of incest that was intelligent, educated, charismatic and overall a not bad ruler/person?
*Cleo is amazing. What a legend.*

[voldlifilm]

"She was smart"
"She was hot, you say?"
"No! She spoke like ten languages!"
"So she got around, you say?"

Early example of media hard at work.

[shridharbiju]

With reference to Cleopatra's tomb, one of the things that fascinate me the most is that Cleopatra's Tomb might actually contain written records of her life from her perceptive as she is quite well learned.

[eiriankageno]

Roman historians: Cleopatra ruined everything for Antony.

Cleo: Rules well, is accomplished, provides a powerful ally and lots of money.

Antony: Loses important battles. Causes his political enemy to go after Cleopatra.

I’m sorry, which one ruined the other?

[Formoka]

DAMN! This is so freaking cool! Whoever thought reducing Cleopatra down to a simple seductress had no grasp on what makes an awesome story.

[NarfoOnTheNet]

"She cared"
Those two words alone cements Cleopatra as one of my favorite historical rulers of all time

[OmegaTaishu]

5:38 "They were tagging each other in memes..."
So THIS is true reciprocal love... I thought it was a myth.

[creamofthecrop]

3:53 Caesar wasn’t just “irritated he got his victory yoinked”. He was devastated. Pompey and Caesar had been friends, and being shown Pompey’s disembodied head really hurt him. He didn’t want to kill Pompey - He just wanted to win.

[KingsandGenerals]

0:02 and I want to know if we can show that on youtube. :-)

[lonelychameleon]

*accomplished woman exists*

Historians: She ruined everything

[Moonstar]

2:31
*Blue:* Alright class, question number four is, "Was Helen responsible for the—"
*Red: flips table* NO

[KTChamberlain]

Caesar was furious with Ptolemy XIII not because he "yoinked a victory from him" as you put it, but for a number of other reasons:
1, The punishment for a former consul being declared an enemy of the state was usually exile, not death.
2, Caesar was planning on pardoning Pompey as he did Brutus, Cicero, Cassius, and so on, but Ptolemy denied him that chance, in part because...
3, Though they were enemies in this civil war, they were still old friends and former in-laws.
4, A kingdom that was indebted to Rome had to respect Roman law and one of those laws was not to harm a Roman citizen of any class without Rome passing the sentence--in short, only Romans had the right to kill Romans, and even then there had to be damn good reason(s).
5, Ptolemy betrayed and murdered Pompey, who came to him in good faith, only to be beheaded.