Cleopatra
You're Dead to Me
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Cleopatra: A Romantic Romance
We really know very little about what most people look like, I suppose, in antiquity. Changing beauty standards are, of course, an issue. In Roman coin portraits, she looks much more sort of Roman conventional Hellenistic portraits. Her hair drawn back in a hairstyle that's segmented into braids. She had a diadem wrapped around her hair as well, which would have been in a bun.
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