Now for Cleopatra Senior!: Revisiting The Very Real Cleopatra VII with The Partial Historians

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

Liv Albert

Comedy, Arts, History

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On Friday we looked at Cleopatra Selene (aka Cleopatra Jr, Cleopatra VIII), so it's only fitting to revisit an old (and very fun!) episode with the amazing Partial Historians about Cleopatra Selene's far more famous mother, Cleopatra VII (aka THAT Cleopatra... Find more from the Partial Historians here.

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0:34.1	Thanks and happy listening.
1:29.4	Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, Baby, and I am your host, Live, here with an episode. I don't know, sometimes I feel like I have to say herewith and then I don't have anything prepared and thus, here we are. I hope you've all been enjoying Michaela's ongoing and new series on the Hellenistic period.
1:33.1	This is something that is generally interesting, but you know me.
1:37.8	I like to joke that I don't care about anything past a classical period, which is not true,
1:41.1	but it does make for more entertainment. And I like to have other people come explain everything post-classical
1:44.7	to me, which is why these Hellenistic episodes are so great. But this week, I wasn't quite sure
1:51.8	where to go. I didn't want this in the middle of December to be the first new, fresh episode
1:58.6	I've done it a while. And also I didn't find the brain capacity because
2:03.7	this Odyssey book is going into like the final rounds of edits. We're going to print in
2:08.5	January this next month is going to be wild. And so instead I thought, okay, so Friday,
2:14.5	we, uh, Friday you got to hear my episode with Jane Dracott, who Michaela did the intro for that, so I don't even know what she presented it with.
2:22.0	But I am, it was such a fun episode.
2:24.3	We had such a great time talking about this really interesting woman who I really knew nothing about.
2:30.7	And I think that Cleopatra herself is so famous, but also so famous for being like this
2:36.5	completely different creature than the human being woman that she actually was.
2:42.5	And so I thought, what better way to follow up the fascinating episode I did with Jane last week
2:49.3	on Cleopatra, Celine, the daughter of the more famous
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