New Netflix Documentary Forgets Cleopatra was Greek

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New Netflix Documentary Forgets Cleopatra was Greek

April 14, 2023

A new Netflix documentary, Queen Cleopatra, exploring the life of the legendary ruler of Egypt, has come under fire for historical revisionism. The documentary has been criticized for “blackwashing” due to the decision to depict Cleopatra as black, despite the historical figure being of Greek descent.

The documentary, which is narrated and produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, focuses on Cleopatra’s reign during the 1st century BC and her relationships with the equally famous Roman generals Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar.

Historically speaking, Cleopatra VII Philopator belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty, the Macedonian Greek royal dynasty that ruled Egypt during the Hellenistic period. Cleopatra was the descendent of Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general who served alongside Alexander the Great and founded the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt after Alexander’s death.

https://greekreporter.com/2023/04/14...eopatra-greek/

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[Colonel Frank Grimes]

This is the third thread on this subject.

I don't understand the obsession with Ancient Egypt by some Black Americans. Race is irrelevant to geography. But let's say the Ancient Egyptians were Black. Why would New World Blacks think they are connected to AE when most of their ancestors came from West Africa, and there are no cultural ties to AE? It would be like a Swede thinking he's descended from the Ancient Greeks.

[nittionia]

random thought but i am descended from ancient greeks

[Östsvensk]

This is the third thread on this subject.

I don't understand the obsession with Ancient Egypt by some Black Americans. Race is irrelevant to geography. But let's say the Ancient Egyptians were Black. Why would New World Blacks think they are connected to AE when most of their ancestors came from West Africa, and there are no cultural ties to AE? It would be like a Swede thinking he's descended from the Ancient Greeks.

Well, not to forget that there are some Nordicists who adhere to that ancient Greeks were blond people and then got darkified into today's Greeks.

[PierreUno]

Well, not to forget that there are some Nordicists who adhere to that ancient Greeks were blond people and then got darkified into today's Greeks.

I am not a nordicist since English people are west Germanics not Icelandics or Swedes but I am not interested in claiming Greece, Rome, and ancient Egypt since the latter two were despotic and ancient Greece wouldn't pass muster as democratic by modern standards. In the last couple of centuries the British system has perfected democracy. Most of the human lives on this planet who lived under any system of government has lived under despotism it is the basic state of human (especially non-English humans) nature.

[PierreUno]

This is the third thread on this subject.

I don't understand the obsession with Ancient Egypt by some Black Americans.

It seems like a giant cope to me they largely came as slaves in horrible conditions, to America, so now : "we wuz kangz and shit!".

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

[HannibaltheGreat]

Shes macadonian

[HannibaltheGreat]

Jesus crist. I went through her family tree, and there were several cleopatras and people named ptolomy