Cleopatra, Sex and the City.

Queen Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh of Egypt, who chose to defend her country in a different way... so distant from the traditional war combats.

She was a stunning temptress.

Her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony mused Hollywood writers and producers.

She was also a highly intelligent woman who used her amazing persuasive powers to try and prevent Egypt being taken by the Romans.

For this, she used all her charismatic powers....

Beauty Radiance, Sexual Attractiveness  , Intellectual Abilities, Seductive Skills, Deception Attainments and Political Potentialities.

She also had a sense of occasion and clever presentation acquirement.

Both men, Caesar and Antony fell in love with her and fought major wars for her that eventually cost them both their positions and their lives - such was her power of persuasion.

While she failed in her ultimate goal of preserving Egypt, she did score many major successes along the way and eventually scorched out a place in world history.

When she decided to kill herself, she did that to avoid humiliation, and probably to make sure that she will be marked as a historic symbol through out the ages..

However, it seems she is not only a historic symbol, but also a feminine symbol that women till this time follow her steps in many ways.

If we have to mention the famous Sex and The city movies and TV series, we can definitely realize that Cleopatra was a combination of all these woman in one person.

She is Samantha Jones, the independent, selfish, confident, strong, outspoken and sexually thrived businesswoman, who uses everything to reach her targets.

She is Charlotte York, a traditional lover, concessionary, a popular queen, a team captain and a mother.

She is Miranda Hobbes, a workaholic, stubborn, living between conflicts, true friend, as she is a masculine and borderline misandrist.

She is Carrie Bradshaw, with a fashion sense, simple, open minded, horny, independent and not fit to be a housewife or house lady.

Sex and the City has been analyzed by feminists both as an example of progress in women rights and life options and as an example of the effects of corporate culture, marketing, and the more individualistic strands of feminism in presenting women empowerment as mainly tied to achieving coupledom, beauty, and personal upward mobility, rather than collective organization for progressive change.

In brief, they are describing exactly the life of the legendary Cleopatra..
Queen of Egypt.

Cleopatra was regarded as a great beauty, even in the ancient world. In his Life of Antony, Plutarch  remarks that "judging by the proofs which she had had before this of the effect of her beauty upon Caius Caesar and Gnaeus the son of Pompey, she had hopes that she would more easily bring Antony to her feet.

For Caesar and Pompey had known her when she was still a girl and inexperienced in affairs, but she was going to visit Antony at the very time when women have the most brilliant beauty".

Later in the work, however, Plutarch indicates that "her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her."

Rather, what ultimately made Cleopatra attractive were her wit, charm and "sweetness in the tones of her voice."

Cassius Dio also spoke of Cleopatra's allure: "For she was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking; she also possessed a most charming voice and knowledge of how to make herself agreeable to every one.

Being brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate every one, even a love-sated man already past his prime, she thought that it would be in keeping with her role to meet Caesar, and she reposed in her beauty all her claims to the throne."

These accounts influenced later cultural depictions of Cleopatra, which typically present her using her charms to influence the most powerful men in the Western world.

Multiple women in one.
Sami Cherkaoui