Interpretations of Cleopatra

Plutarch (1-2) describes Cleopatra as having begun an acquaintance with Rome's Julius Caesar when she was only a girl and as continuing her association with Rome via a relationship with Marc Antony. Plutarch (1) says that 'she was to meet Antony in the time of life when women's beauty is most splendid, and their intellects are in full maturity." In his description, Plutarch (2) says that "her actual beauty, it is said, was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her or that no one could see her without being struck by it, but the contact of her presence, if you lived with her, was irresistible, the attraction of her person, joining with the charm of her conversation, and the character that attended all she said or did, was something bewitching."

From Plutarch's (4) perspective, Cleopatra was therefore a woman of enormous appeal who was quite ambitious and determined to secure Egypt's place in

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