The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-23

0 IEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt, NCJ through all the centuries since N her death, has been an enemy or the political advancement of her sex,
 So declared in Mandel Hall yesterday Prof Guglielmo Ferrero, Italys leading historian. the savant who exposed the ,rammany Hall of ancient Rome, com nared Roosevelt to Caesar and Bryan to Catiline, and placed upon Horace the badge of wine agent.
 The declaration was made in a lecture to the students and professors Of the University of Chicago on Antony and Cleopatra
 The distinguished lecturer, who Is all most as familiar with the Alexandria of re-Christian times as with his natNe Turin. knocked all the romance out or the famous love affair, and intimated that Cleopatra was not even pretty, but had a yisage like that of 'an intractable mother-in-law."
 Antony he accused of marrying for money and power, of being in love with the country and palaces of the Egyptian Queen rather than with the Queen her self. His downfall was attributed, not to the excess of love, but to selfshness and high treason.
 AS for the woman suffrage. IL wasn the Cleopatra of history, but the Cleo patra of historians, who did so much 10 prevent the forward movement of woman hood, for, according to the professor, the legend that has stood through 20 centuries as the truth with regard to the lady of the Nile was a deliberate falsehood, circulated by the victorious Augustus to inspire in the hearts of men horror Of woman's dominance in political affairs.
 He pictured the intense virility of Rome, the Spartan lives its greatest, richest citizens led their rudeness and barbar- ism. compared with the splendor and re- fnement of Alexandria, which he de- scribed as the Paris of the ancient world. He quoted the following from Plutarch as showing the way in which Cleopatra was made to symbolze all this extrava- gant luxury:
 "She was sailing tranquilly along the Cyndus on bark with golden stern. with sails of purple and oars of silver, and the dip of the oars was rhythmed to ,, the sound of flutes blending with the musicaof Tyres. She. herself, the Queen, wondrously clad as Venus. was lying under an awning, gild embroidered. Boys dressed as Cupids stood at her side gent ly waving fans to refresh her. Her maid ! ems, every one beautiful and clad as a Naiad or Grace directed the boat Both banks of the stream were sweet with the perfumes burning on the vessel" But Ferrero, Plutarch to the contrary notwithstanding. says:
 "Archaeologists have discovered in Egpyt portraits of Cleopatra and have discovered that in the poetic descriptions of Roman historians there was at least much fancy In the portraits we do not see the delicate grace of a venus nor even the sensuous beauty of a Marquise de Pompadour, but a face fieshy ana powerful aquiline nose, the face Of won- an on in years. ambitious and imperious' the visage one might say, of an intract- able mother-in-law."
 Why did Antony marry such a face? The professor had a ready answer TOT this unasked question.
 Antony wanted to carry out the dream of Caesar. the conquest of Persia. An tony annexed the treasure of the Ptole- | mics by marriage Then as King of Egypt Professor Ferrero admits, he became fas- | cinated with Egypt. not with Egypt's | Queen. The western barbarian was over come by the effete east, reveled in its ,-------'o- ond at last dreamed of breaking
 away from Rome and becoming the head