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Episode CC - Cleopatra and Antony (Live in Melbourne)

Emperors of Rome

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Cleopatra and the Emperor's of Rome

We leave Antony and Cleopatra now at the heart of their power. It is important for us to realise that the way we perceive Cleopatra is very western-centric, then I suppose. Our historical sources are all Gaston propaganda. That's who we've been mostly using here. So, there's an entire dimension of Cleopatra that we're missing out on. We haven't got much from our written sources. And we do know certain things. She seems to be more interested than other Ptolemy's in infrastructure. In some versions she is given the role of having built the lighthouse at Alexandria,. which had been built a long time before Cleopatra.

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