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» Thursday, February 15, 2007
She Looks More Like Aunt Miranda
Ancient Coin Shows Cleopatra Was No Beauty Kate Douglas Wiggin described Miranda Sawyer in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as your typical 1800s spare New England spinster type. Cleopatra as portrayed on the coin looks a lot like that! There's always the old saw "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." In Peter Paul Reubens time buxom women like he painted were considered beautiful, not fat. Maybe "...shallow forehead, pointed chin, thin lips and sharp nose" was considered beautiful in that age. Mark Antony (on the reverse) resembles a lot of the Italian men who had come "from the old country" that I knew as a child. ----------------------------------------------------------------
. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 12:25:00 PM 
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