On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:33:23 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


cleopatra was greek by descent.

alexander - 304 bc
ptolemy ii - 287 bc
ptolemy iii - 246 bc
ptolemy iv - 221 bc
ptolemy v - 205 bc
ptolemy x - 107 bc
ptolemy xii - 80 bc
cleopatra - 51 bc

plus, and here is where i can go with the best of them, there was the
famous naval battle of actium between the forcces of octavian and
cleopatra.

now, ask me how i know about that last one.

You fought at Actium in a past life? Surely, it wasn't in this life,
Methuselah. ;-)


so naming a ship cleopatra as part of classical greek personages is
logical with the added bonus of being associated with one of the more
famous naval battles of ancient history.

so there.

neener, neener, neener....