Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Jada Pinkett Smith and Director of Cleopatra: Interview RESPONSE" video.
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As for ancient tradition, in Rome the "pater familias" had any right on his family, even to kill his wife and children on the spot. This ancient tradition, however became less and less accepted as time progressed and, in late republican time, even the killing of a slave was no more considered acceptable.
This is reflected in the TWO kind of Roman marriages.
In the marriage "cum mano" ("with hand"), the most common in ancient time, the father of the bride placed her hand in that of the husband. In that way he transferred to the husband every right he had over her. From this kind of marriage, divorce was impossible.
In the marriage "sine mano" (without hand), that became prevalent in 1st century BC, and practically had completely replaced the other by 1st century AD, there wasn't that part, and so the bride remained nominally under the authority of her father. That meant that her husband had no right to abuse of her in any way and for any reason, even infidelity, and she could leave her husband's house AT ANY MOMENT.
That also mean that, the moment her father died, a Roman woman was completely free. She could inherit, carry on her businesses, etc. without being under the authority of anyone. Since high class Romans usually married very young women, that meant also that Rome was full of rich and relatively young widows with a lot of economic power.
Being cum manu or sine manu, Romans had one wife at a time, even if it was common, for high-class Romans, to have lovers, even official ones. IE Servilia, mother of Brutus (Caesar's assassin), and widow of another Marcus Brutus, was the most known of Caesar's lovers.
Gladiators were celebrities. They had a lot of sex.
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Cleopatra didn't rule a country "populated by black people". Egyptians didn't depict themself as black in first place (with the specific exception of the rulers of the 25th dinasty, that were Kushites, and is telling that them, being black, wanted to be depicted differently from the previous rulers). At the time of Cleopatra they had been governed by a Greek dinasty for almost three centuries and, after them they'll be governed by Romans.
Cleopatra wasn't "steeped in the habits of African culture". Ptolemaics remained proudly Greeks to the bone. They adopted only Greek names, ruled over Egypt from a city of Greek culture, founded by a Greek, speaking Greek, and their greatest achievement had been a Greek library.
There are no depictions of Jesus made while he was alive. There are many depictions of Cleopatra made when she was alive, and they had not been made by "those who whised she was white". They had been made by her subjects by her order.
There are no excavations of Cleopatra's relatives at all. Not even one. If you are referring to the pretended tomb of Arsinoe, she can be anyone. Given the circumstances of her death, it was most unlikely for Arsinoe to have a mausoleum. The body died at the wrong age, and her race had not been determined, her DNA cannot be examined, the head is missing, and craniometry to determine race is a scam even when is not based on old pictures.
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Ancient Egyptians didn't depict themself as black, with the specific exception of the 25th dinasty, that were Kushites (and is telling that them, being black, WANTED to be depicted differently than the previous rulers). Egyptians depicted themself very differently than Kushites, that were depicted, other than with very dark skin, with evident subsaharian African traits, while northern invaders were depicted like Egyptians, only with different hats or beards.
In ancient depictions, male Egyptians are coloured red and female Egyptians are coloured yellow. since they were not of different races, it was a stylistic interpretation.
Kushites instead are coloured black or very dark brown.
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