"Secondly, she would have married a fellow royal and thus saved her own royal line "

I posted the above while reading with the intent of commenting. Then I got to this..

"In comparison, see how Cleopatra's son Caesarion was easily accepted by the Egyptians as the next pharaoh, without a single thought about Caesar (a Roman) being his father. "

What I was going to say is that Cleopatra was reinforcing HER claim to the throne by joining with the Godhood of Caeser. Of course this would by extension have increased the Godhood of Her/Their son.

"Politics makes strange bedfellows " comes to mind


warwick






" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
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misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."

Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019