Cleopatra's beauty

Everybody heard of the queen of Egypt and about her beauty...but from an image showed on old coins...the conclusions are contradictory...what do you think of that?

Cleopatra and Mark Antony: ( http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070215-cleopatra.html )


I personally stay sceptic about the veracity of her image on the coin, but also I haven't seen the queen in person ...so I vote "I imagine she was..."

I think Shakespeare has clouded our viewpoint of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar's importance.

I don't know. Plutarch basically makes it sound like Cleopatra drove Antony insane with fascination. It might not have been physical beauty, but there was definitely something captivating about her. I'm going with "I imagine she was..."

I don't think she was anywhere near Elizabeth Taylor when it comes to beauty.

Also, what appealed the eye 2,000 years ago and what appeals now, there is the question...

Finn said:

Also, what appealed the eye 2,000 years ago and what appeals now, there is the question...

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I think our taste in looks would be similar; we still find symmetry and proportion to be fundamental.

You can spot some minor changes in beauty favors by watching movies 50 years old and ones made now. (Of course at least us living now find both equally appealing.)

In some of the islands in the Pacific, a little puff is a mark of beauty.

The indians living in the Amazonas don't find female breasts as arousing as us habitants of the western culture.

There're lot of cultural aspects in play. Also we'll have to bear in mind that the ancient Greeks appraised both male and female beauty and there was practically no distingushion between them.

So Cleo's face could have had some "manly" features even, (something we don't certainly appraise) and she could still have been a true beaut in their mind.

Row faster Cleopatra wants to water ski.

Finn said:

So Cleo's face could have had some "manly" features....

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Cleopatrick.

Maybe there was a combination of factors. In the first place she was a powerfull woman, used great egyptian make up, exotic parfum maybe and all these combined with a great intellect and culture result a very interesting and beautyful woman.

I hear Pocahontas was a hunchback.