Stacy Schiff Quotes

The Personal Inevitably Trumps The Political, And The Erotic Trumps All: We Will Remember That Cleopatra Slept With Julius Caesar And Mark Antony Long After We Have Forgotten What She Accomplished In Doing So, That She Sustained A Vast, Rich, Densely Populated Empire In Its Troubled Twilight In The Name Of A Proud And Cultivated Dynasty. She Remains On The Map For Having Seduced Two Of The Greatest Men Of Her Time, While Her Crime Was To Have Entered Into Those Same "wily And Suspicious" Marital Partnerships That Every Man In Power Enjoyed. She Did So In Reverse And In Her Own Name; This Made Her A Deviant, Socially Disruptive, An Unnatural Woman. To These She Added A Few Other Offenses. She Made Rome Feel Uncouth, Insecure, And Poor, Sufficient Cause For Anxiety Without Adding Sexuality Into The Mix.

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