• Oscar Cunningham@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Stable and prosperous? She started with a civil war and ended by being conquered by Rome. The bit in the middle wasn’t stable either.

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      Getting conquered by Rome is just what you do when you live by their sea.

      But yes, it was, all things are relative, and one can’t blame the beach for the tsunami.

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      It looks to be written by Arsinoë IV or maybe even Ptolemy XIV as it refers to «my brother», so it’s probably biased