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.
I didn’t realize that was supposed to be an I, | thought it was being used like asterisks to indicate action.
that’s what I think it’s supposed to be, but then the middle one is missing the | so who knows
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”
The historians had to lay that pipe somewhere
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.
It’s because of historians you those things about Cleopatra
Why are there pipes (“|”) in the text? It’s throwing me
so SPOKE command gets the output from CLEOPATRA:
|'m guessing it’s to spur engagement.
And, we fell for |t.
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.
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Can you give a single example of an ancient historian describing her as sexy? All the sources I’ve seen focus on her skills and realpolitik rather than her beauty.
But she really, really wasn’t. And she wasn’t even Egyptian, she was Macedonia Greek (and it shows).
