Cleopatra rules her people but has to answer to Rome. ... Act I Scene 3 shows how important reputation is and how they see each other. ... This shows the extravagance the Cleopatra is famous for. ... Enobarrbus' lengthy description of Cleopatra in Act II, scene ii (II.ii.196-245) shows Cleopatra's power at its greatest. ... Cleopatra is shown to be no ordinary women. ...
"(3) Despite a woman's legal freedom to travel about, folk law and traditions were discouraging of that. ... Hatsheput and Cleopatra are two of the best known examples of this. ... A woman had claims of up to 1/3 of all the community property in her marriage. ... The other 2/3 of the inheritance was divided among their children, followed by the brothers and sisters of the deceased. ... Even if he had other children, he could still adopt his wife so that as one of his legal offspring, she would receive some of the 2/3 share in addition to her normal 1/3 share of the community proper...
In Egypt women such as Cleopatra, Nefertiti and Hatsheput were pharaohs and had a high rank in society. ... Confucianism believed that there were five main relationships between people: 1) ruler and subject, 2) father and son, 3) husband and wife, 4) older brother and younger brother, and 5) friend to friend. ...
Thus the early historical sections of the Bible are concerned with the manifestation of God's will in the events of human existence, while they show the same genealogical interests as the king lists of other peoples. 3 Western Historiography Greek and Roman Historiography It was not until the time of the Greeks that historiography, the writing of organic history, emerged. ...
