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CW: suicide. After starting this super-sized episode with some good old-fashioned Plato-bashing, Sara and Sam consider Cleopatra’s connections to the Roman civil wars, drunken Richard Burton, and royal bedroom exploits of multiple genders.

• Roman hairstyles
• On the production disasters of Cleopatra
• What to Do When Someone Has a Seizure - Don't do what they do in this movie!
• Portrait of Cleopatra - from Herculaneum. Notice she's a redhead!
• Cleopatra and Caesarion at the Temple of Denderah
• Painting of Cleopatra and Caesarion - Depicted as Venus and Cupid, from Pompeii.
• Suetonius's Divus Julius 52 - The section of Suetonius's biography of Julius Caesar about his relationship with Cleopatra.
• Plutarch's Life of Antony
• Akrotiri, Santorini
• Atlantis Myth - Translations of the passages about Atlantis from Plato's Timaeus and Critias.