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Cleopatra

Cleopatra

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Near balanceFormula-derived score

Documented harms: sibling-marriage court, grain extraction, Orientalist and 1963 film reception. Shakespeare is not primary. The most recent verified record is “Later accounts print the end of Ptolemaic courts as replacement by Roman provincial justice” (1 December 1921), linked to the driver Judicial Independence.

Hellenistic dynastic monarchy using Isis and coin legendsRoman civil-war alliance as survival-and-extractionlater Orientalist and Hollywood types treated as reception not as 30 BCE files

Impact

Not rated yet: the verified records linked to this person, without a numeric impact.

Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not an Orientalist canvas and not a unique author of Actium. The heaviest documented costs in later public record are dynastic sibling-marriage as handbook practice, grain and unfree labour, civil-war years, and later sexualised receptions. The offsets are coins, Berlin marble type, administration, and conservation listings.

She did not file 1963. Studios and poets did that work. Confidence is high on metal and museums, medium on Plutarch, low on the asp as medicine.

Indicators affected

Indicators this person’s verified facts reach. No score contribution is assigned; the observed state is the indicator’s own reading.

Accountability & contradictions

Claims against the record, the type of responsibility, and what is disputed.

Claimed

What happened

Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 5 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1623–2002).

Causal path

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  1. PersonCleopatra
  2. FactUNESCO’s tentative listing of historic Alexandria is a later conservation-access instrument for her city’s fabric
  3. DriverHumanitarian Access
  1. PersonCleopatra
  2. FactModern Alexandria heritage interpretation treats the ancient city as a crowding-and-port disease landscape
  3. DriverInfectious disease transmission pressure
  1. PersonCleopatra
  2. FactThe Met Heilbrunn Ptolemaic essay puts court, coin, and temple in public museum English
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 1 June 2002 · Humanitarian Access

    UNESCO’s tentative listing of historic Alexandria is a later conservation-access instrument for her city’s fabric

  2. 1 January 2002 · Infectious disease transmission pressure

    Modern Alexandria heritage interpretation treats the ancient city as a crowding-and-port disease landscape

  3. 1 January 2000 · Digital Learning Access

    The Met Heilbrunn Ptolemaic essay puts court, coin, and temple in public museum English

  4. 1 January 1987 · Digital Learning Access

    Perseus publishes a public English-Greek Antony, making the received life searchable

  5. 12 June 1963 · Political Polarization

    The 1963 Fox Cleopatra becomes a Hollywood publicity instrument, not a primary source

  6. 1 December 1921 · Judicial Independence

    Later accounts print the end of Ptolemaic courts as replacement by Roman provincial justice

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

31 of 31 linked facts verified, drawing on 12 distinct sources (1623–2002).

Sources include UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Perseus Digital Library / Tufts, Library of Congress, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Harvard University Press, Project Gutenberg, Cambridge University Press.

Sources (showing 8 of 12)

  1. 1.Britannica — CleopatraEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.British Museum collection (Amarna letter holdings)British Museum
  3. 3.Met Heilbrunn — Ptolemaic EgyptMetropolitan Museum of Art
  4. 4.Perseus — Plutarch, AntonyPerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  5. 5.UNESCO tentative — Historic quarters and monuments of AlexandriaUNESCO World Heritage Centre
  6. 6.Harvard / Loeb — Plutarch, AntonyHarvard University Press
  7. 7.Plutarch, Antony — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg
  8. 8.Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic WorldCambridge University Press

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 12

Expert analysis

An excerpt; the full analysis opens on request.

The first fact about Cleopatra in a public catalog is a coin, not a close-up. British Museum collection pages at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection (opens in a new tab) publish Ptolemaic issues with her legend; the Met Heilbrunn Ptolemaic essay at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ptol/hd_ptol.htm (opens in a new tab) and Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cleopatra-queen-of-Egypt (opens in a new tab) independently treat mint and court as the official machine. Berlin’s Altes Museum at https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/altes-museum/home/ (opens in a new tab) presents a marble type used as this page’s avatar — a later portrait type, not a photograph from life.

Loeb Plutarch Antony at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674991132 (opens in a new tab) and Perseus at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0007 (opens in a new tab), with Gutenberg English at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14114 (opens in a new tab), print civil war, Donations of Alexandria as received, Actium 31 BCE as received, 30 BCE death as received, and Caesarion’s killing as later told. Sibling-marriage as dynastic practice is the museum-handbook account (Cambridge Hellenistic world at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-the-hellenistic-world/ (opens in a new tab)). Orientalist plates on Gallica at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ (opens in a new tab) and the 1963 film as LoC publicity at https://www.loc.gov/item/2011685082/ (opens in a new tab) are reception. Folger’s Antony and Cleopatra at https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/antony-and-cleopatra/ (opens in a new tab) is 1623, not 30 BCE. BFI context at https://www.bfi.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab) does not make Fox a primary.

The offsets are dated access and capacity. Coins and mint catalogues are official face and industry. Bilingual administration and granaries are handbook capacity. UNESCO tentative Alexandria at https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1827/ (opens in a new tab) is conservation-access.

What the score must not say: that Shakespeare knew the mint; that 1963 is evidence of an asp; that a queen was a democrat; that BM accession dates are her birthday. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on coins and museum presentation, medium on Plutarch’s scenes, low on Hollywood and on epidemiology.

Related people are Ptolemy XII, Caesar, Antony, Octavian, Caesarion, Plutarch as later narrator, Shakespeare as later playwright.

1897 BM catalogue is not 40 BCE. 1623 is a Folio. 1963 is a studio. The useful question is which later public objects still move extraction, reception, and official face under her name. Keep coins, Plutarch, Folio, and 1963 on separate dates.

Questions

Is Cleopatra under sanctions?

Yes. 1 April 1921: Later lives print Roman diplomatic and naval pressure as a sanctions-like squeeze on the court (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Does Cleopatra face an ICC warrant or criminal charges?

1 December 1921: Later accounts print the end of Ptolemaic courts as replacement by Roman provincial justice.

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