Remember, quizzes for all Latin sections tomorrow; below is a brief summary of the mini-seminar from Latin 2 on the movie Cleopatra.
~The movie had a slower pace than many students desired but the action was good when it happened; the second half was more political and focused on the core characters of Antony and Cleopatra rather than the wider story.
~Cleopatra was very charismatic and sympathetic but many felt that she got over Caesar's death too quickly; she was with Caesar for power but Antony for love.
~Through most of the movie, Cleopatra want Egypt to be great again and tries anything within her power to make that happen. Her focus is on her son as the heir of Egypt and Caesar but then she chooses Antony over her duty and obligations. At the end, she's not crying over her son or kingdom, but Antony.
~Does the queen emulate the goddess Isis to make her seem more confident or does emulating a goddess make her so? She was raised to think of herself as a living deity, something which Caesar and Marc Antony were not raised to belive nor would their culture acccept the mindset of one man being "master of Rome" (or anything else for that matter).
~"Octavian really got on my nerves." Yea, well, emperors are not known for making friends... ;)
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