In Gadot's view, Cleopatra — the last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt and a descendant of Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who served under Alexander the Great — was "so ahead of her time." ...

Cleopatra may be the most written-about woman ... Though they were of Greek-speaking, Macedonian heritage, the royal women of the Ptolemaic dynasty found themselves in an adopted land where ...

Some users pointed out that Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian — as a Ptolemaic ruler, she was descended from a Macedonian father, and historians don’t know the ethnicity of her mother. This is ...