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Feb. 27th, 2007 10:02 am
shipperx: (Don't Shoot We're Pathetic)
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I've mentioned before our office-wide addiction to audiobooks  (if you draw for a living, you tend to listen to a lot of music and/or books)).  Anyway, due to interest in Rome, a general interest in history, and a growing love of biographies, I'm currently listening to Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor and have reached the point in the story where the historian discusses Cleopatra.  He mentioned a wide range of representations of her on coins "from the witch-like to the radiant" which, of course, brought to mind the article I posted last week about the Cleo/Antony coin .   The historian goes on to mention a bust of Cleopatra in the Berlin Museum.   (Yay, for Google which can find damn near anything.) So here is an alternative representation of Cleo .
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