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The only representation of

Cleopatra

approved by her is in the coins that she had minted during her reign. There she appears as a mannish and unattractive woman: a prominent chin, a bulging nose, and small eyes embedded in her face. It may be that those features were altered to convey a sense of power and instill respect, rather than displaying a fine and fragile beauty. In any case, her image most likely had little to do with the ravishingly beautiful goddess that comes to mind when we think of her.

And not only that.

There is more or less unanimity among public opinion that Cleopatra VII Filopator Nea Thea was a real 'fucker'.

As if apocryphal legends such as the one that places her as the inventor of the 'dildo' had not appeared after filling a pumpkin with enraged bees, then sealing the fruit and applying the resulting pleasant vibration to her 'kleitoris'. In other cases, the artists have presented her with very light clothes, a monarch who

was permanently in boobs

Whether it was to pass laws on the taxation of his subjects or if he had to test poisons on his slaves. In the same way, with her breasts exposed, the popular iconography tells us that she died, assuming another apocryphal legend: that she was bitten by a poisonous asp. The only certainty is that he committed suicide, but his grave has not been discovered two millennia later. There is also no evidence that she took her own life by applying the poisonous reptile, oh dear, precisely to one breast, just as Guido Reni painted it in the Baroque.

Why does Cleopatra radiate sex?

Are there any chronicles about his loving superpowers? Did she have the ability to control the vaginal muscle at will during the act - what is known in these latitudes as "cat" - like another Spanish empress of the 'jet set'? Let's first take the factual (not 'fucktual'), the mondos and lirondos facts. Cleopatra lived between 69 and 30 BC, and was monarch of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt from the age of 18. It is important to note that Cleopatra is part of Hellenism. That is, it was culturally Greek, rather than Egyptian. Here is another of the recurring errors: showing her as a pharaoh, like Nefertiti, instead of a 'basilinna'.

Cleopatra was the daughter of Ptolemy XII 'Auletes' (The Pied Piper) and

married, following an old dynastic tradition, with a little brother, Ptolemy XIII

, both as co-regents. That incestuous marriage soon broke up, sparking a civil war. Cleopatra took refuge in Syria, where another internal conflict was raging, in this case between Julius Caesar and Pompey. Cleopatra allied with the first and not only that: she became his lover and gave birth to the only biological son of the Roman general, Caesarion. Another of the unauthenticated legends points to the technique used by the clever Greco-Egyptian to sneak into Caesar's rooms: to wrap himself in a carpet and once inside, tachán, unroll to surrender him to his charms. The fact is that the victor of the Gallic War returned Cleopatra to Egypt, where he married her to another teenage brother - Ptolemy XIV, less rebellious than the previous one - and returned to Rome, where he was assassinated three years later.

Time passed, and the affairs of the Roman metropolis shook the lands of the Nile again. In this case it was the Second Triumvirate that, on the death of Julius Caesar, divided Rome: Octavian (Caesar's great-nephew), Lepidus and Marco Antonio (faithful collaborator of the murdered in the Gallic War). The latter settled in Egypt, where he also began an 'affair' with Cleopatra, despite being married to Octavian's sister. There, they both

indulged in the pleasures of the flesh, honored Dionysus, founded a circle of livers called the Inimitables, and had three children

. After expelling Lepido, the quilombo between the remaining two was not long in coming: a new civil war, Octavian's victory over Marco Antonio and the suicide of him and Cleopatra.

The victor then became Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and historians indulged in his exaltation. To do this, he had to denigrate his rivals, which included Cleopatra. And this is where the myths began. Then the stories of Propercio, Juvenal and many others emerged, who

described her as a prostitute who had slept with 10,000 men and who came to 'fellare' a hundred in a single night

.

Two centuries later, Dio Cassius defined her as "a woman of insatiable sexuality and greed."

That stereotype survived and reached nineteenth century authors such as Pushkin and Gautier, feeding one of the icons of cinema in the twentieth century, especially thanks to the characterizations of Theda Bara (1917) and Liz Taylor (1963).

Cleopatra, of whom only two sexual partners are known (albeit two wonders), gazes undaunted at her legend as a fornicator from her millenary drachmas.

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