That almost all of her ancestors would have been fair-skinned is also true.īut the largely binary racial terms being used today are anachronistic and can hardly be applied to Cleopatra’s context. That the Ptolemies intermarried and largely kept their bloodline Hellenic cannot be denied. That she was of Macedonian-Greek background is beyond doubt. Some things about Cleopatra are simply fact. As an historian, I have spent endless days studying and contemplating the queen, not least when completing my book, Alexandria: The City that Changed the World. My multigenerational Alexandrian background, on both sides, is key to my passion for Cleopatra. Mine is the only Egyptian voice on the programme. Social media hashtags and online petitions were followed by an Egyptian lawyer filing a complaint with the public prosecutor against Netflix, which for its part reportedly closed comments on the clip’s YouTube page. The trailer was met with immediate accusations of falsifying history. But the intense reactions to the trailer of Netflix’s upcoming Queen Cleopatra docudrama speak volumes about both Cleopatra’s enduring legacy and the strength of identity politics.
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