Today, on the Ascension bank holiday, we visited the Cleopatra and Ceasar exhibition in the Kurpfalzmuseum in Speyer. It was an impressive and informative display, spoiled just a touch by the pretty bad air in the understandably dark rooms, with artefacts borrowed from Hamburg, Berlin, the Louvre, from around Italy… but nowhere in Egypt that I noticed.
It was refreshing to see the museum point out how the somehow insecure male victors' view of this femme fatale permeated culture, belittling Cleopatra’s richness and mastery of manipulative politics.
