Black cleopatra pictures and biography

As someone who wrote an entire series on Cleopatra , and did so after researching a considerable amount of ancient historical sources, I wanted to look at this question. Only those that have spent time in any type of minority status knows what it feels like, and I have had my fair share, having lived in different parts of the world.

Having said that, I believe that historical depictions have to be grounded in known facts or make a reasonable attempt at logical inferences. But for now, I prefer not to state an opinion. Alexander was crowned Pharaoh of Egypt in B. C and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty. Ptolemy II came from this union. He inculcated local customs, worshipped Egyptian gods and the Ptolemies began their own cult that intersected Greek and Egyptian gods—read about Serapis , and over time, his dynasty became strongly interwoven with Egyptian heritage.

Queen cleopatra

Their court was Greek, but most of the country continued its former ways. One aspect of Egyptian royalty that the Ptolemies imbibed was intermarriage. The man wed his cousin or sister, and the lineage continued that way. There is only the flimsiest thread that he may have married a foreign woman, in which case Cleopatra could be of mixed heritage.

But where does this speculation come from?

Cleopatra real face

Only from the basis that her father may have married a Persian woman or someone from the Seleucid dynasty—but then Seleucids themselves were Macedonian too to strengthen his foreign alliances. But then Persians are neither black nor of Greek heritage. As to the speculation that her mother was black—it is based on only the fact that Ptolemy XII may have had other mistresses and wives of different ethnic and racial origins.

These sources either knew Cleopatra as they lived during her time, or wrote about her in the decades or centuries after, based on first or second-hand sources, or through literature now lost to time.