Ahhay and welcome to emperors of Rome a podcast about the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me as always is Dr. Ancient This is episode LX, Cleopatra, live from the Wheeler Center in Melbourne.

On the 22nd of November 2016, Empress of Rome had its first live show,

looking at the Egyptian Queen Claire Patra,

her relationship with Caesar and Mark Antony,

and her place in Roman, Egyptian, and world history.

And now I'll throw to somebody who sounds freakishly like me.

Here's Matt Smith.

Thank you all for braving the weather and coming out in uncharacteristic Melbourne Spring.

So I would like to begin this by acknowledging the traditional owners and

custodians of the land of which we meet today the War Andry people of the

Kulin Nation and pay my respects to the elders both past and present.

Goshkinny actually wrote that.

Opening of the book here.

So, ah, vaguely hands up, I can see vague people out there. Who knows why you're here?

A couple of podcast listeners out there.

Well, I'm Matt Smith, I'm the host of The Emperors of Rome podcast,

and for the uninitiated it's a podcast which is vaguely mostly about Roman emperors

We're up to Hadrian we just finished Hadrian we're taking a bit of a break and talking about poetry at the moment and every now and then we do a bit of a deviation which is why we thought we've never done an episode about Claire Patra

We should do one and share it with the people and see if a couple of people will turn up and a couple

of you did.

So thank you very much for that.

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