Cleopatra mythologized herself before anyone else had the chance.
Popes, pulpits, politics, pundits too. Y’think?
It’s dizzying to contemplate the thicket of prejudices, personalities and propaganda … biased, xenophobic, politically motivated and sometimes sensationalist writing… for an audience; for an audience that expected to be dazzled…
Aw shucks. And here I thought hammers were for nails.