Cleopatra
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Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.
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The dust, the sultry sea air, Alexandria’s melting purple sunsets, are unchanged.
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In the ancient world too women schemed while men strategized;
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Citing her sexual prowess was evidently less discomfiting than acknowledging her intellectual gifts.
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the Egyptian queen in the neighborhood.*