Also 'sexy' and 'smart' is probably historically inaccurate, since her dynasty had been doing sibling marriages for like a hundred years. I think Plutarch even called her ugly, although that might have more to do with Roman politics than her.
Also 'sexy' and 'smart' is probably historically inaccurate, since her dynasty had been doing sibling marriages for like a hundred years. I think Plutarch even called her ugly, although that might have more to do with Roman politics than her.
She got that Mark Anthony dick. How bad looking could she be?
Still, getting a Euro-Israeli to play a Ptolemaic Queen ruling an African kingdom on behalf of a brutal lead-addled Roman Empire carries a certain degree of ironic merit.