Cleopatra

Cleopatra is deserving of all the attention she has gotten over the centuries. When the world was dominated by power hungry men, she stood firm and stubbornly worked to make her country as wonderful as it could be, despite a tumultuous upbringing which included a forced marriage to her younger brother. She was bold with her requests and didn't mind raising an eyebrow or two. It's not fair that all people think of when they think of Cleopatra is sexy siren. Yes, sometimes she used her body to um, "forge alliances," which I obviously think is wrong, but she deserves more respect than that. The films that have burned her permanently into pop culture beautifully portrayed the opulence of Egypt, a land where rulers were led to believe that they were gods and all they did was just. The film photographs are of Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh.