Channel: Eric Connor
Duration: 4:17
Description: The Face of Cleopatra: ancient Roman depictions of Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Other figures include her son Caesarion and her husband Mark Antony. The mediums of art include paintings, sculpted busts, statues, and coins, all dated to the life of Cleopatra or within a hundred years of her death in August 30 BC. In each depiction she wears a royal diadem, the typical symbol of Hellenistic-Greek kingship going back to the ancient Kingdom of Macedonia in northern Greece. She also wears a “melon” hairstyle that was worn by her Ptolemaic ancestors queens Arsinoe II and Berenice II, and which became popular with Roman women after her visits to Rome in 46 and 44 BC (staying at Julius Caesar’s villa).
For further information, see her Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra
The music heard in this video, a classical guitar rendition of the Double Violin Concerto 1st Movement by Johann Sebastian Bach, belongs to the public domain.
Published: April 16, 2018 6:52 pm