The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-03-11
GREAT LOVE STORY
HISTORICAL HOAX
Ferrero Skaters the Beautiful
Romance of Antony and
Cleopatra.

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zero, the Italian historian, in a lecture
at Columbia university on Antony ana
Cleopatra" not only shattered one OF
the greatest love stories of the ages
but he did 1t with an u%ptodate nam
mer fashioned to the present crisis. He
pronounced this tale of a strong mans
weakness under the enchantment OF q
woman's smile IAN anti-feminist legend
illustrative of how dangerous 1t is to
leave to women the government OF
public affairs"
THE figures of women" said Mr..
Ferrero, are rare In RomaS history.
III this world of men a woman suddenly
sppears-a woman strange and won
derful. She Is sailing TRANQUILITY along
tho Cydnus on her way to Tarsus.
where her first meeting with Antony
occurred. Posterity is yet dazzled by
this ship, effulgent with purple and
gold. We are s~pellbound. small Won
wer that Antony hould be SO. The ro-
nance pleases, but does not keep or
the brutal hands of criticism
A New Cleopatra.
The lecturer then proceeded to draw
the real" picture of the heroine, cru
ely divesting her Of charms at every
step. He spoke of the portraits of the
siren found by Psychologists. Com
pairing them with the poetic descrip-
tions Of her due to poetic fancy" he
went on. I'VE do not seq the counte-
nance of a venus. delicate, gracious.
smiling. Her face is feshy-bouthe.
as the French would say, with a pow
erfui acquiline nose.
TT Is the face of q woman on in
years, ambitious. imperious. But
beautiful or ugly is Of little concern
when n studies her relations with
Antony, in the spirit of criticism, and
finds that the passion Of love had small
place therein"
Mr.. Ferrero touched upon the meet
ing Of the pair in Tarsus, Of Antony's
tarrying with the queen throughout the
winter. leaving in the spring. III
stayed away three years, during which
there Is no proof that he was signing
for her. He was preparing for the Per-
sian campaign. The idea was con-
ceived by Caesar, for only great sue
cess could give him and his party au-
thority."
Why He Married Her.
The speaker Went back to the dis
ccvery by the Frenchman, Latronne,
about a century ago., through a COM
parison of ancient coins, that Antony
had married Cleopatra, for the basis OF
his deductions. This marriage" he
said, took place at Antioch with all
the dynastic ceremonies of Egypt in SO
B. c., and thereupon Antony became
king Of Egypt, though he never dared
assume the title.
."This was brought about, not by
love, but politics. scheme which
Caesar understood perfectly. After the
plumber Of other regions the only state
left that was rich in precious mater
'ials was Egypt, and these were
wanted to use in the campaign of
Persia.
why did Antony marry Cleopatra
instead Of conauering Egypt? Because
there was an old standing tradition In
Rome hat Egypt should be exploited,
but respect shown her independence"
It is, therefore, to Egypt as muc as
to Cleopatra, to whom he grants fas-
cination n what passed for culture
in those days hat Mr.. Ferrero attri-
buted the change in Antony's charac-
ter. The lnagnificence Of his surround
q noble but impoverished family, his
sway as king with unnumbered men
falls to crafty his every within, the
subtle influence Of the most highly de-
yeloped civilization In the world, all
seized upon his mind.
Antony's Undoine.
Cleopatra urged him to give UP the
conquest Of Persia and to found with
her and their children a new dynasty
that should be the controlling power
of Orient n Occident. While his
thoughts returned to his country to
oppose Cleopatra and r%elinauish a
kingdom We're beyond him. And from
this point Mr.. Ferrero traced the end
less tangle of crooked policies which
In the end wrought Antony's undo
Ing.
Antony succumbed in the famous
war, not because he was mad with
love, but because he was abandoned
by his soldiery when they understood
his contemplated t%reachery. and, ac-
cording to the lecturer, it was this
sentiment which made Augustus at
Actium an easy
The present story tina has so en-
tertained posterity, he said, was in
vented by the vicious party OF Angus
tus and accepted as the popular ex-
PLANTATION Of the eastern peril. II do
not believe" Mr.. Ferrero said, In con-
clusion, that 1t is the office OF history
to give men who have guided human
events a posthumous Justice"