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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-10-02 06:46 pm

[ SECRET POST #2465 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2465 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Twin Peaks]


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[Doonesbury, O Human Star]


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[Two of a Kind]


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[Cleopatra/Elizabeth Taylor]


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[The Final Descent by Rick Yancey]


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[Attack on Titan]


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[Sleepy Hollow]


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[Whitechapel]


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[Outlast]



















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(Anonymous) 2013-10-03 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Off topic but...OP? You do realize that it's generally agreed that's not what Cleopatra's nose probably looked like?

...Also, this is less towards you OP so much as the people talking about her heritage, but chances are she was a mix. Realistically, it's more likely she was closer to having more Egyptian than Greek in her because her family kept most traditions of the ruling family [including multiple wives].

(Anonymous) 2013-10-03 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but a lot of people also forget that Egyptian ethnicity then wasn't exactly what Egyptian ethnicity is now.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-03 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
She was of a Greek family, with a Greek name. Her family even refused to speak Eqyptian, which she had to learn. The name Cleopatra is Greek, not Egyptian. Even if she was mixed, she looked Greek.

(Anonymous) 2013-10-04 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, no. Her family was descended from Ptolemaios, a Macedonian Greek general, and they pretty much kept it in the family. Men married their sisters/nieces and some had concubines with other relatives. Cleopatra's mother was likely her father's half-sister or cousin, its very doubtful that Cleopatra and her older sister Berenice were the daughters of a concubine.