• Flying Squid
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    You’re still making no sense.

    What does illegitimacy have to do with it?

    Why can’t her father have been legitimately married to a dark-skinned woman?

    Edit: Wait, you know the Ptolemys, like all pharaohs, had multiple wives, right?

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        98 hours ago

        What’s funny to me is that all the people complaining that she was too dark had no problem with the fact that she was too beautiful.

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          Well to be fair that’s a coin from thousands of years ago, even today it’s not hard to make absolutely deformed shit.

          https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43598431

          Though I wouldn’t be surprised either if her famous beauty was widespread sarcasm that got taken seriously, and it also wouldn’t surprise me if she was actually beautiful and people wanted to demean her, like Napoleon is depicted as short even though he wasnt

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            27 hours ago

            As far as I know, Caesar and Anthony wrote about being attracted to her intelligence, not her looks.