On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:14:45 -0000, "Jeff" wrote:

Cleopatra.... I guess they ran out of popular Greek heroes

Cleopatra was a Greek.

She was the last of the Helenistic dynasty known as the Ptolemaics and was
descended from Alexander's general called, obviously enough Ptolemy..

She just happened to rule Egypt


That's on a par with saying that Gt, Britain is ruled by a German,
Cleopatra was definitely fully assimilated as an Egyptian, perhaps the
dynasty did have Greek (Macedonian) roots 300 years previously but even the
early Ptolemaics made Egyptian marriages.

Well, not only a Greek but an incestuous dynasty. A well recorded one
also. Your Egyptian chappies/lassies would be who, exactly?

Cheers,
dba