Capitolo 2
Canopic speaks to emphatic way.--Ancient Egypt.--The Pyramids.--Conquests of the Persians
and Macedonians.--The Ptolemies.--Founding of Alexandria.--The Pharos.
The history of Cleopatra is a history of crime. It is an account of the
course and the consequences of illegal love. In her strange and
romantic history we see this passion it treats again with the more suit
and the graphic fidelity in all of his/her influences and effects; his/her
uncontrollable impulses, his/her joys that inebriate his unwise and angry
goes of career and the terrible remorse and the last desperation and downfall in that
it always and inevitably the ends.
Cleopatra was from birth an Egyptian; from ancestry and descent she was a
Greek. This way, while Alexandria and the Delta of the Nile formed the scene
of the most important events and accidents of his/her history, it was, the
blood of Macedon that flowed in his/her veins. Its character and action are
marked by the genius, the courage, the originality and the
impulsiveness that pertains to the escort from which her jumped. The events
of his/her history, on the other hand and her particular character
adventures, its sufferings, and its sins were determined by the
circumstances with which she was surrounded, and the influences that
you/he/she was brought for being born on her in the soft one and voluptuous region where the
scenes of its early life were staid.
Egypt has been considered as physically the more extraordinary always
country on the globe. It is a long valley and hold of vegetable and
the fruitfulness, completely isolated by the rest of the habitable world.
It is more entirely isolated, in fact, that some literal island was able
both, since deserts are more impracticable than seas. The a lot
existence of Egypt is a more extraordinary phenomenon. If we was able but
you fly aloft with the wings of an eagle in the air, and you look down on the
scene, as to observe the operation of that great and still simple
drawn from that this long and marvelous valley, so profusely abounding