Boléro vs Cleopatra

mishalbohm

Published on May 22, 2014

Music from BOLÉRO (by Maurice Ravel) combined with a scene of Cleopatra arriving to Rome from the movie CLEOPATRA (1963, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, (C) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

  CLEOPATRA: THE EXHIBITION - CLOSED

The most famous woman(Cleopatra) in Egyptian History, was actually descended from A GREEK DYNASTY, The Ptolemies ..." 00:58 - "...The First Ptolemy was the one of the Generals of Alexander the Great took power three hundred years before Cleopatra was born…" 01:06 - 
"... She encouraged scholarship and learning, wrote books and was the first Ptolemy of Pharaoh to speak Egyptian as well as GREEK ..." 01:27

 

44excalibur 7 years ago

Cleopatra was the seventh woman of the Ptolemaic Dynasty to have that name, which was the name of Alexander the Great's SISTER. Cleopatra often cited her Greek ancestry going all the way back to Alexander the Great as a way of maintaining her power in Egypt. Her distinct NOSE and facial features were Greek. Anyone can wear corn rows, and like I said, ALL the Ptolemies wore Egyptian clothing and hairstyles while they ruled Egypt.

44excalibur 7 years ago

Historical accuracy is not whitewashing. After the death of Alexander the Great, Egypt was under the rule of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, who were Greek-Macedonian, and Cleopatra was a direct descendant of Ptolemy I. She was even named after Alexander's younger sister, Cleopatra I.

44excalibur 7 years ago

Oh, there were darker skinned Egyptians, but there were also the Nubians, who were at war with the Egyptians. Go look it up. Egyptians enslaved Nubians and Nubians later invaded Egypt and ruled over it, hence the 20 or so dark-skinned Egyptian Pharaohs mentioned by Herodotus. But you sound like the one who's desperate. Egyptians haven't changed much in 5000 years according to DNA testing. And Cleopatra was Greek-Macedonian, so deal with it.

44excalibur 7 years ago

No, YOU stop with the Afro-centric re-writing of history, read a history book and go look up ACTUAL history. Cleopatra was a direct descendant of Ptolemy I, Alexander the Great's general, who took over rule of Egypt after Alexander's death. The Greek-Macedonian Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt for over 300 years afterwards, and adopted Egyptian customs to better acclimate to their suroundings, incluing DRESSING like Egyptians and MARRYING WITHIN THIER OWN FAMILY!

 

44excalibur 7 years ago

Oh, and don't try to go into DNA. Look up the Journal Of American Biology and you'll see that scientists have already done tests on the DNA of Egyptian Y chromosomes and concluded that present-day Egyptains are not that much different than the Egyptians of 5000 years ago. And it's an historical FACT that the Ptolemies were of Greek ancestry and married withing their own family during their reign over Egypt, so Cleopatra was most defintiely GREEK MACEDONIAN, not African. THAT is in her DNA.

 

 

 

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ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑ= Ptolemeos dynasty = Ptolemeos= friend and one of Alexander the great officials= MAΚΕΔΝΟΙ / ΜΑCEDONIANS= DORIC TRIBE = one of the many arcaic Hellenic/ Greek tribes = EΛΛΗΝΕΣ και Ελληνίδα βασίλισσα της Αιγύπτου = Greek Queen of Egypt ?????????????????????