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Who was Cleopatra really? What kind of woman was she? What did she look like? The devious seductress of popular legend or an ambitious and capable queen struggling to hold on to power? Cleopatra lived in the turbulent world of Hellenistic Egypt and the Roman Empire, much of what was written about her during her time was influenced by her politics.