TAVIS SMILEY | Author Stacy Schiff on Cleopatra's ethnicity| PBS

:Cleopatra" author discusses the Egyptian ruler's ethnicity.
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[deedeegr100]

I am Macedonian and I live in the capital of Macedonia, Thessaloniki! I am proud that people talk about the Greeks and I am proud that the Macedonian part of the Greek history is so famous!

[kostas67reth]

FYROM citizens (an artificial nation with an under construction history) will send their argue e-mails to Stacy now.

One more slap in their faces. lol

[sonicsoundwaveus]

After the conquering of Persia, Jerusalam, & Egypt the Ptolemaic dynasty forged what we call the book of Genesis & the other 3 books of Moses, to unite all under Macedonian power.

[deedeegr100]

@artemi25 go to the louvre you crazy person..you will learn everything about macedonia

lmao desperate wannabes

[artemi25]

@deedeegr100 macedonia is slavic history forever, go and read a book

[zeppelin8]

@tanio12 In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, which had been under the rule of a Persian satrapy since the invasion of Cambyses in 525 BC. Alexander's general Ptolemy was granted control of Egypt after the death of Alexander in 323 BC, and he established the Ptolemaic Dynasty- an ethnic Greek ruling class who remained distinct from the Egyptian population.

[boronghousegtk]

Greeks are meditterean nowadays because Cleopatra's ancestors, who ruled Syria, Egypt and the meditterean world left mixed peopl who say they are Greek. In short, they are notified as Greeks although they come from the meditterean and look olive in color and facial features. They might even have been intermarriages between the Greeks and the presumed "Greeks" to make southern Greece middle-eastern looking.

[SPARTANsenator7]

@apro282

well said