If Cleopatra continues to fascinate us more than two thousand years after her death, it is because her personality covers an inexhaustible mystery that has been widely exploited by cinema.
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Cleopatra.
The faceless queen
, Frédéric Martinez declares the cause heard: we will never know what was going on in the heart of this great predator of politics and love.
“At 38 years old, Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, goddess, offers history her profile of a medal broken by a hooked nose. (…) Her coarse, crinkled hair of a Greek matured under the skies of Egypt covers an indecipherable face: disfigured by Roman propaganda, magnified by the Moderns, it remains an enigma
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By retracing the main milestones of a destiny which saw this woman rise to the top of fame before dying at 40, the author however manages to approach the Sphinx.
Julius Caesar, who will put her on the throne of Egypt, and Marc Antoine, who will be lost for her, are two good common threads.
Cleopatra's dream
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