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Cleopatra
You're Dead to Me
Antony and Cleopatra
Mark Antony is a Roman politician in this period, and he's also very famous for being a particularly effective military commander. According to Plutarch, she travelled by pleasure boat, dressed up to evoke Aphrodite, the goddess of love and sex. So it's not being coy, Besh: Well, we knew she was a seducer from before, didn't we? She's been in the seducing game for a minute. So that's not even a shock. And obviously, as you said, Shishwim, there's a kind of mutual, she needs a powerful Roman man to support her. He maybe needs Egypt to be on side. But we get
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