Pothinus [SEP] sex or gender
herself, after realizing that he is hiding behind a curtain, ready to murder Caesar.
- In the 1963 film "Cleopatra", starring Elizabeth Taylor, he was portrayed by Grégoire Aslan. Pothinus tries to poison Cleopatra, but the plot is discovered in time, whereupon he is put on trial (with no witnesses testifying), pronounced guilty, and sentenced to death by Caesar. Cleopatra's faithful male servant Apollodorus follows Pothinus and the small procession of guards as they exit the room, and within a few seconds
sex with him. Despite her outward behavior of being slightly dim, she is in private moments as politically astute as Octavian. In "De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)", Octavian's mother Atia of the Julii puts social climber Livia in her place, vitriolically calling her a "vicious trollop" and domineeringly asserting her feminine dominance over Livia in defiance of the priests. While Livia is outwardly unfazed by Atia's words, she is clearly uncomfortable.
- Pothinus (historically, "Pothinus"), played