1996 Virgin Player- Cleopatra

Cleopatra, Pitcher

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Cleopatra

Archetype of the romantic, ambitious, and political femme fatale. She is the famous Queen ofEgypt, lover of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. The Encyclopedia Britannica describes herphysical characteristics as more alive, than beautiful with "a sensitive mouth, firm chin, liquideyes, broad forehead, and prominent nose." Cleopatra was Macedonian, not Egyptian. She wasthe second daughter of Ptolemy XII and the last Macedonian sovereign to rule Egypt. Apparentlyshe had a great voice, the Greek biographer Plutarch called it an "instrument of many strings".

Her affair with Julius Caesar began in 48 B.C. as she attempted to advance the interests of thePtolemies by courting the leader of Rome. She succeeded and returned to Rome with Caesarwhen he celebrated his triumphs over the Pompeians. She was in Rome when Caesar wasassassinated, March 15, 44 B.C. and with his death, her political ambitions stalled.

It is her affair and subsequent marriage to Mark Antony, a contender to succeed Caesar, that theEnglish dramatist Shakespeare immortalized in his Antony and Cleopatra. Cleopatra hadactually met Marc Antony years earlier in Egypt. She was a young teenager, he was young staffofficer on duty. Fifteen years later Cleopatra sailed up the Cydnus River to Tarsus in Asia Minorin a barge loaded with gifts with her political ambitions still in tact. Marc Antony was completelyseduced by Cleopatra. However, in light of subsequent events it might also be said that Cleopatrawas also seduced for her romantic and erotic escapades can be seen to have contributed to herultimate political failure to secure a future for the Ptolemies.

Events conspired against her and Marc Antony, and her political ambitions failed a second time.Despite her attempt to seduce Octavian (later Augustus) Egypt was annexed by Rome in 31 B.C. The next year Cleopatra, like Marc Antony committed suicide. She was laid to rest next to theman she had been with for 11 of her 39 years.

Cleopatra

Batting Record

YEAR TEAM POS B.AVG At Bats Hits HR RBI ---- --------------- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ Cleopatra 1983 Virgins if .274 124 34 2 13 1984 Virgins if .288 118 34 2 13 1985 Virgins ss .275 566 156 13 62 1986 Virgins if .247 279 69 6 30 *Cosmic Seasons: 4 .271 1087 293 23 118

Pitching Record

YEAR  TEAM              ERA     IP  Won     Lost    Win Pct     SO
----  ---------------  ------  ---- ------  ------  --------- ------
Cleopatra
1995  Virgins           3.54    216     11      13   .458        131

           TOTALS       3.54    216     11      13   .458        131

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