[common denominator]

Victor Davis Hanson has said he believes the Cleo is ugly to be Roman propaganda.

[eleni121]

Plutarch said this about her:

'For Rome, who had never condescended to fear any nation or people, did in her time fear two human beings; one was Hannibal, and the other was a woman (ie Cleopatra).'

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Octavian (Caesar Augustus) was on the winning side of the civil war with Marcus Antonius and Cleo, so his people wrote the history. Had MA and Cleo won, she would have been a hero.