196. Julius Caesar & Cleopatra 

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He was a Consul of Rome!

Cleopatras coins give the game away. She was a butter face. But she had other qualities that apparently made her irresistible to men.

"Dr Dan the Bandage Man"? After the Little Golden Book of the 1950's?

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The notion of “Roman propaganda” is an overused trope in contemporary pop-history. It disregards the values that Roman’s held and therefore their perspective. It ignores the fact that the origin myths of the Roman’s themselves are filled with rape, fratricide and other acts they don’t shy away from. Had “propaganda” in the contemporary sense been their primary interest in recording their history, I highly doubt they would have recorded their barbaric origins or recorded their worst defeats in such detail from the sacking of the city by the celts to the defeats at the hands of Hannibal and the destruction of the Varian legions in Teutoberg Forest. It’s also oversimplification to credit Caesar’s victory over Pompey with “he was a better general” when there was pressure from the Senate to force a pitched battle with Caesar when Pompey could have simply starved he and his army out in Greece.