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We Don't Know How Cleopatra Spent Her Days, But We Do Know How Other Hellenistic Monarchs Spent Their Days. There Has Been A Great Amount Of Scholarship In The Last 30 Years About Education In The Hellenistic World And Women In The Hellenistic World. We Now Know How An Upper-class Woman Was Educated In Her Day.

Ancient History Is Oddly Short On Incorrect Omens.

No One Sits On The Stoop When She's A Kid And Thinks, 'i Want To Be A Biographer When I Grow Up,'

No One In The Modern World Controls The Wealth Or Territory That Cleopatra Did.

It Has Always Been Preferable To Attribute A Woman's Success To Her Beauty Rather Than To Her Brains, To Reduce Her To The Sum Of Her Sex Life.