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International Spy Museum

35. Cleopatra

Granger Collection, New York

Cleopatra was considered in the history books to be a seductress of some kind of both Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius, and Augustus. She was a master of seduction and romance and went out of her way to make her suitors happy. For example, she arrived on a boat dressed as Aphrodite with perfume emanating from the atmosphere just because she knew Marcus Antonius was a fan of Hellenistic culture. Talk about dedication! But she wasn’t only beautiful; Cleopatra had the brawn and the brains to back everything up. She was also something of a military strategist and very skilled in chemistry, law, and economics.

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