Cleopatra | The Last Pharaoh of Egypt | 4
Legacy
Wondery
3.9 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
From Shakespeare to Netflix, Cleopatra's life and death has been told and retold. Siren seducer, serious scholar, powerful African queen - or all of the above? Untangling the real Cleopatra reveals as much about our own identities as hers.
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| 0:18.3 | A listener note, this episode contains references to suicide. Listener discretion |
| 0:23.1 | is advised. Welcome to Legacy and the fourth and final episode of our series on Cleopatra. |
| 0:36.9 | Where we left you, Cleopatra was in a bit of a spot. |
| 0:40.1 | Her lover and partner, Mark Antony, was dead by suicide. |
| 0:44.5 | The Roman troops of Octavian are gathered around her in Alexandria. |
| 0:48.7 | Cleopatra has been on the throne for a while. |
| 0:50.6 | She's now age 39. |
| 0:51.9 | One of the great rulers in Egyptian history is barricaded |
| 0:55.1 | into her royal quarters in Alexandria. The question now is, are there any options even left for her? |
| 1:01.6 | The soldiers of her enemy, Octavian, are in the palace. Octavian, who once shared the Roman |
| 1:06.6 | leadership with Anthony, but has now decided to make a play for it all and set his sights on |
| 1:12.0 | conquering Egypt too. She is hauled up in her mausoleum with her treasures, hoping this might |
| 1:19.4 | offer some last leverage to bargain the way out, not just for her, but for her children and her |
| 1:25.5 | dynasty. Even as this vision of a mighty Roman-Egyptian dynasty is falling apart, |
| 1:30.6 | she has not lost hope. |
| 1:32.7 | But Octavian's men are banging on the door. |
| 1:51.9 | I'm going Frankenpurn. |
| 1:53.2 | I'm Afrohash. |
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