Cleopatra and Mark Antony - Real Faces - Ancient Egypt - Rome
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2021
- A look at a most important era of ancient Rome, transitioning from a Republic, into a more authoritarian regime, the civil war between the Optimates and the Populates, Republic or Empire.
This time we examine the granite bust, that is believed to depict the famous Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra the last monarch of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic kingdom.
We look at the faces of the two most powerful men of Rome. Mark Antony and Octavian, initially allies who formed the Second Triumvirate, to avenge Caesar's death, only to clash a decade later at the naval battle of Actium.
Many thanks to @ShivangiKatoch and @CatKelley for their angelic voices.
This has got to be your greatest video yet!…
love the music you chose , the precise summary of the historical background surrounding Antony and Cleopatra and how you included information not usually present in most accounts.
It’s so much fun to see historical figures recreated as how they would have looked like in real life. Thank you for all you do to bring them to us!♥️♥️
No it's fake History and you're delusional for believing it.
You know how people always comment "you could see these people walking around today". Well, your reconstruction of Cleopatra looks exactly like my aunt, down to the smile. I've seen that face countless times during my life. Fantastic video!
As a modern Roman I have to say that Cleopatra's charm will never end. Thanks Constantinou for your sublime work.
Yes. It's strange they keep saying she wasn't beautiful, my mother had a nose and similar face shape and was considered beautiful by people who knew her, of course I thought so, but I am biased, being her son. This gentleman's reconstructions of her are quite beautiful indeed, just not in the "Baby face" Elizabeth Taylor style.
Modern Roman? Are you Italian? For not all Italian is Romans even during the times of Julius & mark Anthony.
@@agadirand4four347 I'm not jutst italian i'm roman (born and rise in Rome) so how do u wish to call me genious?
@@agadirand4four347 excuse me...what do you call an inhabitant of Rome, even now?
@@agadirand4four347 All native Italians are descendants of Rome.
One hell of a history lesson! But the most striking thing, is how much Ptolemy XII looked like Mark Zuckerberg.
This☝🏻😂
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was Ptolemy XII in a past life. That's if you believe in reincarnation.
Hahahahahaha
🤣
I was thinking that he looked familiar. Problem solved!
The development of your documentary style is of note: well researched, concise, exciting and very personal.
I do kind of wish the footnotes we're on screen for longer. I have to stop to read them.
@@rivergirl3444 I guess all of us do it
I'm really addicted to these little movies. I'm in awe of how you bring these people to life....sometimes it makes it harder to hate them lol.
Very good! Please do segments on her sisters, Berenice and Arsinoe. Arsinoe's tomb has been discovered, so you should be able to generate a good likeness of her. Please also do a segment on Cleopatra's four children. Thank you for such a great program!!!
That will be so interesting to see!
It ended up not being the tomb of Cleopatras sister. The remains were of a female around 15 years old. Much too young to be the sister
Actually the tomb and remains in Ephesus have never been proven to belong to anyone related to Cleopatra. Speculated, but never proven.
You should be given some award for what you have done!!! Your work has brought the dead almost back to life!!!!! OUTSTANDING work young man!!!! Thank you!!!
Every time I think this UA-camr can't get any better, he produces another amazing video! 🙏 Just subbed to those two fantastic vocalists too.
Absolutely I agree
This is the prettiest facial reconstruction of cleopatra I've seen on UA-cam.
Just getting better and better with each new video. It never gets old, your recreating lifelike faces from realistic statuary.
Beautiful work, thank you 🙂! Love the way you edited it, too!!
Excellent video thanks for the vdeo and time 👍
Wow, truly epic piece. Well done! Cleopatra's love song is very charming.
Once again, you nailed it. Big love from your Orthodox brother in Serbia!
thx mate!
This is EPIC! Excellent work on one of my favorite historic figures.
Any chance of seeing a video of Alexander the Great, based on the mosaic they found in the ruins of Pompeii? Also, I would love to see Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, who was supposedly a descendant of Antony and Cleopatra.
You’ve outdone yourself. Very well done! Beautiful and realistic recreations. Plus the research you do is amazing. Thank you 😊
Εξαιρετικο βίντεο.Συγχατητήρια.
Cleopatra.The Greek Queen of Egypt.
(Makedonian Dynasty of Ptolemy)
Amazing. Loved it. And the music and the information were great.
What an outstanding work ! Amazing video ! Very different from all others. I always expect your new video and always very happy to find one. Very enjoyable and very educational. Thanks a lot 🌷🌷🌷
Very nice couple. Antonio was a handsome guy and had a very south Italian / mediterranian look. Cleopatra was a beautiful woman indeed. I just can't understand why most people say she was ugly.
its because she was in a very inbred family line but being part of an inbred family doesn't mean that all of the children will be ugly, just that there is a higher chances of a child having pronounced features and therefore not aesthetically pleasing. Some inbred children can be good looking, its really a coin toss.
@@johnisaacfelipe6357. Talking about coin, there is a Cleopatras face on one of the coins, looking very Ptolemaic ( big chin and nose) pretty much ugly,nothing similar to this.
@@spiritualhumanist can you give me the name of this coin? surely it must have a title
I'd love to see some ancient Chinese and medieval Mongolian figures! Thank you for your work
This is so well done, thank you! It’s easy to see you have a lot of respect for history. Thanks for presenting these ancients and their stories to us so honorably.
You are welcome 🤗!
Thankyou. Thoroughly enjoyed it
Another wonder video. Thank you. I continue to learn so much from you. ❤
Absolutely wonderful. I'm so impressed that I have subscribed.
Awesome!! bro i love this everyday. good job.
An excellent piece of work again. The music was perfect with this.
Thank you 😊
An epic story that has survived the test of time and I imagine that in another thousand years people's imagination will still marvel at the Story of the great Cleopatra and her Roman general Marc Anthony!
However in this century I'll just marvel at their real faces!!
Absolutely superb! Great to see how my namesake in Roman history and his lover looked in real life. I must add that the music and historical information add greatly to the experience as well. Keep up the good work.
Your presentation is, as always, brilliant.
Wonderful job. Brings it all to life.
These depictions are a fair estimate of these people I’m impressed
Muchas Gracias por la recreación, por favor Atila el huno.
Amazing video,
excelente¡¡¡ Gracias por mostrarnos la historia y los rostros de los protagonistas¡¡¡
Very well done.
Great history lesson. With good transformations. From the statue, Marc Anthonys face is more chiseled, stronger, mature.
When I look at the marble busts of many, I think of the life they may led, and how it would reflect on their face.
Your images are near enough for us to capture a sense of a real life portrait:)
Excellent channel. Congratulations. Just an aside: If Cleopatra and Mark Antony had won the Battle of Actium, the course of history would have been changed, as the center of the Mediterranean World would have shifted to the eastern part (Greece and Egypt) and today most of southern Europe (and also France and Romania) would speak Greek.
I have a series on what if that had happened
Excelente!
Maybe she smiled because she had so many victories. If I had a man like Antony, I would be smiling too!
Yes. She thought she had a guaranteed victory, and why not, up to the defeat at Actium, Octavian and his allies had not shown they could do anything but lose in a direct head to head war vs Antony. Antony was the more experienced, seasoned, PROVEN military commander, historically, that usually wins but not here, which is strange. Furthermore, he was in Caesar's position and Octavian in Pompey's initially,, but he was much stronger relative to Octavian than Caesar to Pompey. Pompey had every advantage except battle hardened troops, he had Italy, the Senate's support, more money, more men, yet, in the end Caesar won. Here, Antony held the East, which had more wealth, more power, he could easily match what Octavian could bring forth. Yet, there was something strange going on with Julius and his nephew, a family culture that was somehow generating men who could both nation build, and grow as military commanders. Octavian in 32 B.C. was a different being than the green youngster that could only watch Antony use their combined resources to take down Caesar's assassins and their army. He had found a friend gifted in tactics and strategy to help him, Agrippa, probably became his student so he was a capable military commander UNKNOWN TO CLEOPATRA AND ANTONY! It must have come as a nasty shock, so much so, that they abandoned the offensive plan to attack and take Rome like Caesar did, and decided to fight defensively in the Actium region. Only then maybe did she stop smiling, since she later panicked when the battle tide seem to turn and she knew Octavian had declared war on her personally, probably why she fled the battle rather early. Yes, she definitely escaped, but her army was lost without it's leader. Hmm, this shows inside she was the same lady who was on the run from her YOUNGER brother and only Julius Caesar prevented his victory and her death. Maybe she abandoned her supporters too quickly then also. In that situation, she needed to understand, SHE COULDN'T RUN, it was do or die there. It's probably why, despite preserving her treasury, she and Antony didn't/couldn't build another army to contest Octavian's advance. It was surely Octavian's turn to be surprised, as he took the time to carefully advance, presuming to likely encounter strong resistance, which actually gave them time to recruit, properly train, and even develop some experience with them fighting desert tribes that still would occasionally raid Egypt. Nope, they just despaired, tried to talk him out of it diplomatically, which of course, failed. When he and his army of 100,000 to 200,000 reached Egypt, I'm sure they expected a monster land battle. Nope. They were so fearful and pathetic, I believe this narrative, Octavian was moved to mercy, especially after his chat with Cleopatra, her magic power over men working one last time even on him, that he allowed Antony a dignified end, and her to remain in her position symbolically as queen, but with him in control. It would be a true client state. He did that during his later reign, unlike his successors. This deal allowed her children including the illegitimate Caesarian to live. Then things may have happened outside of his control, she may have discovered just how much she actually loved Antony and the grief was indeed unbearable for her to endure so she ran one last time, from life itself. Or, one of Octavian's inner circle, someone he couldn't punish, or dare go against took care of her, and Caesarian before he could stop them, and he preserved her other children as he promised. Anyway, had he been really set on humiliating them he would have done as Romans did to even their rivals, deny them a proper burial, wipe out their family children included, he did NOT do that he buried them together in her Mausoleum apparently, a full burial with proper rights apparently, he then commanded his sister to raise them as if they were his own, none of this could have been thrilling to her. She was the wife of Antony at the time he got super serious with Cleopatra, the one who suffered the public humiliation. Octavian literally betrayed his sister by being merciful to those two, and forcing her to raise her traitorous husband's and his mistresses's children after they were gone. He must have promised her that he would ensure the safety of her children I something happened to her, and he lived up to his end of the bargain.
@@jonathancummings6400 Thank you for your analysis. I learned something!
Thank you so much, learned all the historic stuff long ago in school, but it was difficult to understand every reason and reaction, now beeing old and thanks to your channel, I understand !
By the way is there a possibility to buy the beautyful music ?
Perfect!
great voices, great video
great video. please credit the movies you use, please. it makes it easier to find them if i should want to watch them. thanks.
Fantastic
WOW, brilliant.
Amazing video! Would be wonderful if you could do Genghis Khan next 🙏
good video
brilliant
What is the name of the software that made this nice work
Your reconstructed portrait of Octavian [name as such from (63-27 BC) ], ..here is unerringly accurate. This can be seen by a comparison of it with that of the much later "Augustus of Prima Porta" (Octavian now called Augustus from 27BC-AD14). Well done Panagiotis.
That was epic..but couldn't hold myself when I realised Marc Zuckerberg as Ptolemy 12 😜
This Cleopatra doesn't resembles images of her with a larger nose...descriptions also seem to allude to the bigger nose, almost more homely look...
WONDERFUL
Εισαι πραγματικός καλλιτέχνης φιλέ μπράβο και αγάπω σου όλα τα βίντεο.
Ευχαριστώ μεγάλε!😉
Out of all I seen, I'm leaning toward this Cleopatra being the most accurate looking
Excelente
Augustus's appearance as stated by historians at the time: Suetonius tells us he was light complexioned, blond-haired, and Pliny added he had grey eyes. Note others said his eyes were blue but grey eyes can look blue in bright sunlight and dark in dim light. Also written 'his hair was brown(ish) with a trace of golden blonde. Some Slavic people have said he looks like them and even British claim he looks English. So I'm going out on a limb and say he looks middle-European. Also notable was the physical condition. He was short and thin. Note: He was a sickly child and as a young adult suffered multiple illnesses that kept him bedridden and off the battlefield.
Can you please do a segment on King Hoell V and Queen Hawise of Cornouaille (House of Rennes) (Duchess of Brittany)? I would like to learn more about them. Thank you.
Good vid. I also love the music, though it's clearly not contemporary to Cleopatra.
However, I'd rather taken Cleopatra's AI image from her famous bust which is more likely to be realistic than the more stylized typically Egyptian statue.
Can you do a vídeo about Princess of Éboli?
THANK YOU! famous mistress like Agnes Sorel, Diane de Poitiers, Nell Gwynne... Maria Walewska?
You’ve probably get a lot of recommendations, and hopefully this doesn’t bother you. I am curious to see what comes out for a series of Buddhism. There is one statue in particular that many scholars say most resembles like him that is currently at the Norton Simon in Pasadena.
Cleopatra was more than the Queen of Africa, she was Greek. Julius Caesar was Greek, and they both went by more than 1 name, they ruled the world, reincarnated and keep doing it. Rock on forever, you two!!!❤
She wasn’t queen of the entire continent, just Egypt. And Caesar was Roman, an Italian, not Greek.
Caesar is roman from gens Julia clan (ethnic ltalians and mythologically descendants of goddess Venus). Cleopatra was ethnic greek cutie queen of Egypt. But their son Ptolemaios Caesarion is half-greek and half roman. Cleo is just queen of Egypt not the entire world.
crazy that people on twitter rallied behidn the netflix docu saying she was black
@@deejay7339 crazy for sure
Iulius greek ? You are crazy 100% italian blood , iulus is not greek only sicily ,calabria , and puglia have blood greek in italy
what's the name of the song that begins at 5:04 ?
Great work, as usual. I wonder if Cleopatras' hair was a wig. If it was, what was it made of, horsehair maybe? Also, who cut the mens' hair or how was it cut? Did they have razors because those are some spiffy cuts on the men. Inquiring minds want to know.
Es wurden in dieser Zeit meistens Perücken getragen..wegen der Hygiene..wurden Köpfe kahl gehalten..
In this time did women wear a wig.
as agyptian queen..the head was often without there hairs.
Well done, such interesting work! But prepare for the "KleOpATra WaS bLACk" brigade in the comments like in every other video about her.🙄
YEAH, because no one learns any history these days.
They certainly get high handed about it. I expected some to have already commented.
@@Zuxiasunicorn Now that you mention it.....but let's just wait a day or two. I'm sure they'll be crawling out of the woodwork by then.
I wouldn’t argue her complexion as much as the fact it’s known she was inbreed and definitely no beauty by all accounts just highly intelligent and skillful at wielding her power. But if Blacks don’t exist on the continent of Africa that’s a debate for the senseless. Real Egyptians know the truth of the land aka my husband.
Well, if you want to be historically accurate, you definitely need to darken the skin tones. Remember the Greeks considered themselves superior to the neighboring people as they were a perfect blend, a middle-of-the-road between the darker Africans and lighter people far to the North. Roman women grew terribly jealous of the Germanic and Celtic female slaves the Roman legions brought back. To compete with the pale skin of these northern people, Roman women took doses of Arsenic, to make their skin white.
Even if Cleopatra was full-blooded Greek she would have the skin tone of someone like Salma Hayak, perhaps. But the Ptolomy line had intermarried with the Egyptian people for many generations, so Cleopatra would likely have been noticeably darker than your typical Greek or Roman at the time, the typical Greek or Roman being considerably darker than a typical Northern European.
At 7:58 last line of text "...she stayed at Caesar's villa until is assassination."
Exelent video ; por favon en español latino GRACIAS
wow!
poor Lepidus never gets a look in
He is the Ringo of the group.
Have you done Livia and Claudius?
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Cleopatra was not black and will never be black no matter how bad some people want her to be ❤
At 0:55 the text begins "The the deeper cause..."
Great great great
If she looked like that, Cleopatra was beautiful. What a knockout!
Great video! So much work you do, with riveting results. Thank you. I did always wonder what was so great about Cleopatra. Beyond being some kind of femme fatale, she was a manipulative, murderous coward. Of course, she swallowed some opium mix rather than kill herself by snakebite. She's the most overrated ruler in history.
Cleopatra, from the Ptolemy line of Greeks. She looks pretty in the video.
Классно, сделайте пожалуйста Плантагенетов.
Way more accurate than netflix
Mark Antony, great soldier of Rome.
Mass Effect music ftw
Cleopatra had blue eyes and fair skin according to physical descriptions
Cope shes Mediterranean
Blue eyes arent common in Mediterranean region
@@david22723 First of all this was in ancient times. They’re not common now because of the moors which was after the Roman Empire. And she was from northern Greece.
@@david22723 Only northern Italians were not mixed with moors
@@samcaranol4102 actually Mediterraneans back in time had more Mediterranean Physical characteristics(curly dark hair/brown eyes/ white or brown skin colours)than now because that was before the invasion of Germanic tribes and the settlement of arabs turks celts slavs extra who aren't native to the region
@@samcaranol4102 Northern Italians are literally germanic people lol for most parts remains of Ostrogoths and lombards
Music sound?
So the battle of Phillippi seems the same battle ongoing in the world now.
At 2:54 third line of text reads "One on side is Octavian..." First and second words need to be reversed.
A feeble couple that shouldn't have stood in my way.
You should have let them be :-)
Zuckerberg looks like Cleopatras father.
Cleopatra is my favourite queen 👑
How a few dozen men and women were able to control and determine the fate of hundreds of thousands of less fortunate people.
Deep are the wounds of civil strife.😢
Odd choice for Cleopatra's scupture since there are two that actually resemble her coin portraits
Yes, but we don't really know what she looked like, although I have the ambition to somehow create a composite portrait of her.
@@panagiotisconstantinou True enough although the coin portraits are the safest bet
@@panagiotisconstantinou coin portrait is probably 99% accurate, this bust is probably 99% not cleopatra real look.
That smiling Cleopatra looks creepily like Messalina.
great! make persian kings too
Had she not fled the war might not have been lost, but she could have been compromised at some point enough to flee, I find hard to believe that Greek and Egyptian joint technology failed to win Marc and Cleo a victory, and they both were more experienced than Octavia, just luck I guess.
Cleopatra was beautiful
herkes farklı oluşturuyor kleopatra'nın yüzünü. hangisi gerçek kleopatra ?
Cleopatra is not egyptian any way
Greating from Egypt 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬
She is greek queen of Egypt. Very beautifull one). 🇦🇲❤🇪🇬