Why did they use a pipe instead of the letter I?
| Don’t like it.
|’m glad |’m not the only one annoyed by that.
Because you would start talking about it
Yeah one of the fist ways I learned to create engagement was to fake typos / make simple grammer mistakes.
It’s not meant to be an I, it’s meant to be an action. They’re not writing “I commanded an army”, they’re writing “commanded an army”.
No, it was not a good choice. But that’s what they were probably doing.
Then it would’ve been “against her brother” though, not “against my brother”
Honestly, my brain just didn’t even process it as an I. I just looked over it and started the sentences without them.
Anyway, why the fuck did they do that?
Stable and prosperous? She started with a civil war and ended by being conquered by Rome. The bit in the middle wasn’t stable either.
Was it historians who were saying Cleopatra was sexy or filmmakers?
3 Antony, on the contrary, like Heracles in paintings where Omphalé is seen taking away his club and stripping off his lion’s skin, was often disarmed by Cleopatra, subdued by her spells, 957and persuaded to p339 drop from his hands great undertakings and necessary campaigns, only to roam about and play with her on the sea-shores by Canopus and Taphosiris. 4 And at last, like Paris, he ran away from the battle and sank upon her bosom; although, more truly stated, Paris ran away to Helen’s chamber after he had been defeated; but Antony ran away in chase of Cleopatra, and thereby threw away the victory.
Plutarch was a bit of both, but that tendency has definitely existed longer than movies.
Plutarch was a bit of a filmmaker?
He was the 200 ce version of one, anyway.
Nah, it is the other way around. Historians would say those facts, and Hollywood and possibly general media would be the ones saying “sexy”.
Don’t historians say she probably wasn’t sexy? Just super bold which attracted powerful men, who hasn’t seen much of that back then.
She was a powerful personality. All the records indicate that she was of seemingly above average beauty standards, but nothing earth shattering.
Instead, it is claimed that her strength of personality is what attracted the powerful men in her life to her.
She had access to creams, ointments and fragrances and good sleep. She also kept ugly ass lady servants to keep the contrast in her favor.
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True. She was more seductive and alluring than plain ol sexy (according to my readings).
Yeah, it is the exact opposite of what OP claims. Historians are basically the only ones constantly demystifying her, while her legend as a sexy femme fatale lives on in the general public mind (thanks pretty much exclusively to Hollywood, because let’s face it, noone would know she existed without them).
Why are there pipes (“|”) in the text? It’s throwing me
my take is that they’re trying to do the “>text” to indicate that is an action rather than words, but it formatted to a quote box
>this is what was meant
this is what happened
that’s my guess tho idk
It’s the letter “i” but double capitalized.
|'m guessing it’s to spur engagement.
And, we fell for |t.
It’s because of historians you those things about Cleopatra
I do find it hilarious that we associate sexiness with Cleopatra because of an intensive smear campaign.
She probably was legitimately attractive by Roman cultural norms and almost certainly leveraged that when dealing with Rome. The smear campaign was more playing that aspect up while downplaying the fact she was a genuine once-in-a-generation genius than making up things about how sexy she was.
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What can I say, competence is sexy, excellence even moreso
But she really, really wasn’t. And she wasn’t even Egyptian, she was Macedonia Greek (and it shows).
