Conversations: Cleopatra Selene... A Queen her Mother Would Be Proud Of w/ Dr Jane Draycott

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Liv speaks with Jane Draycott again this week about her book Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen. Jane Draycott is an amazing scholar who has done phenomenal work on Roman women who often are left without a voice or are given a much lesser reputation than they deserve. Cleopatra Selene is a delightful character to give to the world, and to share her life with the rest of the world. Plus, Jane has a magnificent Norwegian Forest cat who makes himself known!

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1:17.1	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, all, and welcome back to this episode of Let's Talk About Mids Baby, where Liv is talking with the lovely Jane Dracott.
1:20.4	You've heard from her before when she came to talk about Fulvia, her new novel, on that, but
1:26.3	this time she's here to talk about Cleopatra Salini and her book
1:32.3	that she did on her.
1:35.6	Cleopatra Salini is a very interesting character.
1:38.2	I know nothing about her.
1:39.7	I do have the book, Cleopatra's daughter, but I haven't read it yet because I am tired, so I haven't
1:46.1	gotten around to it. That being said, you know, it's interesting to think about how these
1:53.9	dynasties continued on. If any of you guys were listening to Tuesday's episode, you'll remember
1:58.7	that we talked a little bit about Alexander's
2:01.7	sister Cleopatra in that and how she was a, you know, a hot topic to be wedded to because of her
2:10.7	sort of full argued bloodline and that would allow anyone who married her to continue that bloodline.
2:16.3	But, you know, there's the OG Cleopatra.
2:19.0	And here we have another one.
2:21.5	Not the one we always think about, Cleopatra 7.
2:24.3	But this is actually, this is her daughter.
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