122 - Cleopatra: Queen. Seductress. Product Of SO MUCH INCEST!

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Whopper of a tale for you today. Battles, incest, murder, betrayal, and more! Born in 69 BCE, Cleopatra VII was part of the Macedonian dynasty that took over rule of Egypt in the late 4th century B.C. A dynasty full of a PREPOSTEROUS amount of incest and murder. SO much. During her reign, she forged political alliances and became romantically involved with Roman military leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony - bearing sons for month men. She could've ended up ruling Rome. Instead Rome pushed her to her death in 30 BCE. Check out the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://open.spotify.com/user/1253351401/playlist/2ldySEdIW3YfhHLQpkX2AS?si=snvNrIagRbWI5frN6_3Sdg Timesuck is brought to you by Leesa! Get $160 off a Leesa mattress at leesa.com/timesuck and use promo code TIMESUCK at checkout Timesuck is brought to you by the The Great Courses Plus! Start your free trial now only at TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/TIMESUCK Want to try out Discord!?! Click HERE! Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/vwyEHpUlaYo Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 3500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits!

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0:00.0	Finding herself in dire circumstances after the death of powerful Roman Emperor Mark Antony,
0:05.8	Cleopatra queen of Egypt committed suicide at the age of 39 and with her died the Egyptian civilization
0:12.4	that had been around for roughly 3000 years. Egypt would now be a Roman province and
0:16.9	Cleopatra would transition from a living legend to a dead one. Cleopatra actually Cleopatra the
0:22.5	seventh or full name being Cleopatra the seventh Thea Philipator or Cleopatra the father loving goddess
0:30.0	was the last and a long line of Greek total made rulers given the kingdom of Egypt by none other than
0:34.8	Alexander the great and she packed a whole hell of a lot of life in the less than four decades on the
0:39.8	earth. She bore famed Roman leader Julius Caesar a son who had certain key events gone differently
0:46.0	during her lifetime could have ended up ruling both Rome and Egypt. She had two additional sons
0:50.4	and a daughter with Mark Antony and then she fought together with Antony to rule both Egypt and Rome.
0:55.6	Cleopatra once personally led several dozen Egyptian warships into naval battle renowned for her
1:00.8	beauty her political guile and toughness were actually her most formidable assets. She would live to
1:06.8	become the first non-Roman citizen to be featured on a Roman coin she would rule Egypt for 22 years
1:12.7	loser kingdom regain it nearly lose it again a mass and empire and then lose it all.
1:18.0	The month of August is based on when Cleopatra died that's when you know you've reached some sort
1:22.4	immortality when the placement of one of our 12 months is based on your death the firmament the
1:28.4	first Roman emperor Augustus who gave us the name of that month founded his reign on her defeat when
1:34.4	he had the chance to have a month named in his honor instead of choosing September the month of his
1:37.9	birth he chose the eighth month when Cleopatra died so it could be a yearly reminder of her defeat.
1:44.4	Shakespeare would reintroduce Cleopatra to the world of more than just historians when he wrote
1:48.5	Anthony and Cleopatra a five act tragedy in 1606 1607 and we've been wondering about Cleopatra's
1:54.7	life ever since and we dig in deep today on the fascinated and frankly super weird tale of this
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