Cleopatra's Daughter [SEP] narrative location
Cleopatra's Daughter
Cleopatra's Daughter () is a 1960 historical drama film set in Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Khufu (r. 2589-2566 BC). The film stars Debra Paget and was directed by Fernando Cerchio. For some reason, the English version was translated very differently from the original Italian script, setting the film in the 1st century BC, rather than the early Bronze Age.
Plot.
After the death of Antony and Cleopatra, Egypt is ruled by the young tyrant Pharaoh Nemorat and
of a foreign queen at the expense of their Republic. Octavian also fostered the narrative that Antony was neglecting his virtuous Roman wife Octavia. He granted her and his wife Livia the extraordinary privileges of sacrosanctity. Cornelia Africana, daughter of Scipio Africanus, mother of the reformists Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, and love interest of Cleopatra's great-grandfather Ptolemy VIII, was the first living Roman woman to have a statue dedicated in her honor. She was followed by Octavian's sister Octavia and his wife Livia, whose statues were most