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Mary Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College, traces the main origins of the black Cleopatra claim to the 1946 book by J.A. Rogers called World's Great Men of Color, although noting that the idea of Cleopatra as black goes back to at least the 19th century. [7] [8] Lefkowitz refutes Rogers' hypothesis.
The race and skin color of Cleopatra VII, the last active Hellenistic ruler of the Macedonian Greek Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, established in 323 BC, has also caused some debate, [114] although generally not in scholarly sources. [115] For example, the article "Was Cleopatra Black?"
Roman writers including Plutarch and Cassius Dio, known for chronicling the Roman and Greek worlds during Cleopatra’s reign, said Cleopatra was light-skinned and of Macedonian ancestry.
"Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not Black," he said, pushing back against Black Americans who have claimed that the Egyptian civilization is of Black origin.
Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII and an uncertain mother, [32] [33] [note 13] presumably Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra V Tryphaena (who may have been the same person as Cleopatra VI Tryphaena), [34] [35] [36] [note 14] [note 2] the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphaneia.
Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing "African Queens" docu-series "Queen Cleopatra," which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming ...
Netflix said biracial actor Adele James had been cast in ‘a nod to the centuries-long conversation about the ruler’s race’
Cleopatra I Syra (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα ἡ Σύρα; c. 204 – 176 BC) was a princess of the Seleucid Empire, Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt by marriage to Ptolemy V of Egypt from 193 BC, and regent of Egypt during the minority of their son, Ptolemy VI, from her husband's death in 180 BC until her own death in 176 BC. She is sometimes viewed as ...