![]() Origins offers an opportunity for players to inhabit the world of ancient Egypt. I very, very much doubt that she was remotely flirtatious." ![]() "It was put about by Augustus after his war with Mark Antony, to discredit them both, and partly to show Antony in thrall to, and misled by, a seductive queen. "Much of what we know about Cleopatra is propaganda," says Mary Beard, professor of classics at the University of Cambridge and author of recent best-seller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. She is a femme fatale: exotic, sensual, flirtatious and beautiful.Īccording to leading classicists working today, the woman we see in the game is almost certainly nothing like the real Cleopatra, most especially the way she behaves around men. But she is often clothed in slinky, revealing outfits. In Ubisoft's latest historical drama, Cleopatra is tough, smart and ruthless. ![]() But while the game is strong on visual realism, there's one area where it diverges badly from historical accuracy: its portrayal of Cleopatra. ![]() Assassin's Creed Origins is an attempt to create a believable world based on historical Egypt in the first century BCE. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |