I visited her bathes yesterday near fethiye...why did she have bathes there? any history would be great....
2007-06-15 01:55:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"Cleopatra, by the way, was here twice, once in 46 BC and once again in 32 BC with Marc Antony. He, Antony, was en route to Actium. She, Cleopatra, was enroute to a seven-month gala at Samos."
http://www.aegeancharters.com/itineraries/goc-fet1week/gocek-fethiye.htm
"The famous first meeting between Mark Antony and Cleopatra took place [in Tarsus] in 41 BC."
"Tarsus", Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000
2007-06-15 02:19:43 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just a local legend that she actually bathed there. It's like all the places in the UK that are associated with King Arthur, or all the different beds Queen Elizabeth I is supposed to have slept in. When you've got a larger-than-life character in your history, you want to be connected to them.
Cleopatra and the other Ptolemaic kings of Egypt did rule parts of what's now Turkey, along the south coast, as well as Cyrpus. Egypt was a great Mediterranean power.
2007-06-15 09:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by booklady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John is right. The Pharaohs were of Greek origin. What is now known as Turkey was, at the time, inhabited by the Greeks in the West and the Kurds in the east.
St. Nicholas was Greek but came from what is now Turkey. (Myra - now Antalya). Likewise St. George. (Cappadocia) When Cleopatra was around, the Turks were still living in what is now western China, and that's where the language originated.
2007-06-17 06:12:21 · answer #3 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cleopatra is not closely linked with 'modern' Turkey. She was part of the Hellenistic era when the generals of Alexander the Great and their successors ruled the eastern Mediterranean. Today Western Turkey is littered with the remains of their great cities such Pargamon and Ephesus. In fact the Hellenistic period is reckoned to have ended with her defeat at the hands of Augustus and the Roman Empire in BC31.
2007-06-15 12:11:02 · answer #4 · answered by john 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i visited there a few years ago, its because it was beleived to be th epurest waters or something along those lines.
2007-06-15 09:02:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋