![]() ![]() Growing up as a Ptolemy must have been a PTSD-inducing experience. That’s a giant question so, as the academics say, let me unpack it. You say, “She combined brilliant leadership with a productive womb.” Tell us about the Ptolemaic dynasty, and how Cleopatra used those two qualities to rule. Let’s start with one of the last, but most famous, Egyptian queens: Cleopatra. When National Geographic caught up with Cooney by phone in Los Angeles, she explained why Hatshepsut was so perfect how Cleopatra grew up in a family that makes the Sopranos seem like lambs and what these women symbolize for their society-and ours. Yet as Kara Cooney explains in her new book, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, those women were ultimately only placeholders for the next male to take the pharaoh’s throne. ![]() A woman has yet to be elected to the highest office in the United States, but 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt it wasn’t unusual for women to rule-and some became all powerful, like Cleopatra and Nefertiti. ![]()
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