tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post40075861539473019..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 1310: Cleopatra turns on her headlights...and in turn, turns on Julius Caesar!Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-84589851503574183612013-02-05T03:15:14.945-08:002013-02-05T03:15:14.945-08:00Well, there are greater issues that the specifics ...Well, there are greater issues that the specifics of Anthony's suicide or the size of a nose.<br /><br />Examples: Cleopatra wasn't facing much if any <em>popular</em> rebellion;* her problems were in dealing with Rome and with rival claimants to the throne.† And there were almost 20 years between when Cleopatra met Gaius Julius Cæsar and when she died.<br />__________<br /><br />*Unlike her predecessors amongst the Ptolemies, she postured not as a Greek conqueror, refusing even to speak Egyptian, but as a reïncarnation of Isis, happy to use the national language. And her liaisons with Cæsar and with Anthony were recognized as helping to preserve a degree of Egyptian autonomy.<br /><br />†The Ptolemies tended to be killed by connivance of other Ptolemies. Cleopatra herself had her sister and perhaps one of her brothers killed.Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-13449919871035576452013-02-04T18:34:47.662-08:002013-02-04T18:34:47.662-08:00Brian, you can pick your nits, and you can pick yo...Brian, you can pick your nits, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your nits' nose.<br /><br />Something like that, anyway. <br /><br />Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-50036834474935027202013-02-04T10:20:29.664-08:002013-02-04T10:20:29.664-08:00Hopefully most people had better history books tha...Hopefully most people had better history books than yours :) There's a lot wrong with that one, especially with Mark Antony's death (he killed himself, but it didn't take -- how embarrassing! -- and ended up dying in Cleopatra's arms.)<br /><br />Also, she had a much bigger nose!<br /><br />There, I'm done nit-picking for today.Brian Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15737535617796413548noreply@blogger.com