01-21-2005, 01:46 AM
Cleopatra's mother was not the sister of her father. Her mother was a daughter of Mithradates of Pontus (THE Mithradates, who gave the Romans such a hard time for such a long time). Cleopatra's half-sister, Arsinoe, was the progeny of the "usual" brother/sister marriage (her father's second marriage). I am not certain whether both of her brothers were from full brother/sister parentage.<br>
Colleen McCullough, in her last two Roman novels, "Caesar" and "The October Horse", takes the position that Cleopatra was more Semitic looking-being darker and with a hooked nose. Children do not always resemble their immediate parents; they can "throw back" to earlier anscestry, and I think Cleopatra had some Nabatean in her anscestry, father's side (I think). Ms McCullough is, of course, working from coin profiles for part of her physical description. Cleopatra was not a noted beauty. It was her personality and her power that drew men like Caesar and Marc Antony.<br>
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I looked at the stills from "Augustus" and they are certainly a mish-mash of equipment, some with some vague resemblance to actual stuff, and the rest something else all together. The only good thing about the varying styles is that Roman soldiers did not look exactly alike-unlike modern soldiers. A certain amount of variety in appearance would be expected and normal.<br>
The Italian studio gear seems to be the dominant look these days - being used for "The Passion of the Christ", "King Arthur" and this "Augustus" piece.<br>
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Marcus Quintius Clavus/Quinton <p></p><i></i>
Colleen McCullough, in her last two Roman novels, "Caesar" and "The October Horse", takes the position that Cleopatra was more Semitic looking-being darker and with a hooked nose. Children do not always resemble their immediate parents; they can "throw back" to earlier anscestry, and I think Cleopatra had some Nabatean in her anscestry, father's side (I think). Ms McCullough is, of course, working from coin profiles for part of her physical description. Cleopatra was not a noted beauty. It was her personality and her power that drew men like Caesar and Marc Antony.<br>
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I looked at the stills from "Augustus" and they are certainly a mish-mash of equipment, some with some vague resemblance to actual stuff, and the rest something else all together. The only good thing about the varying styles is that Roman soldiers did not look exactly alike-unlike modern soldiers. A certain amount of variety in appearance would be expected and normal.<br>
The Italian studio gear seems to be the dominant look these days - being used for "The Passion of the Christ", "King Arthur" and this "Augustus" piece.<br>
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Marcus Quintius Clavus/Quinton <p></p><i></i>
Quinton Johansen
Marcus Quintius Clavus, Optio Secundae Pili Prioris Legionis III Cyrenaicae
Marcus Quintius Clavus, Optio Secundae Pili Prioris Legionis III Cyrenaicae
