CHARMIAN / MENAS
Charmian
"The messengers came at full speed, and found the guards apprehensive of nothing; but on opening the doors, they saw her stone-dead, lying upon a bed of gold, set out in all her royal ornaments. Iras, one of her women, lay dying at her feet, and Charmion, just ready to fall, scarce able to hold up her head, was adjusting her mistress's diadem. And when one that came in said angrily, "Was this well done of your lady, Charmion?" "Extremely well," she answered, "and as became the descendant of so many kings"; and as she said this, she fell down dead by the bedside." Contemporary counterpart: Kim Kimble Kim Kimble has been Beyonce's hairstylist for over a decade. How Kim Kimble became Beyonce's Hairstylist |
Charmian was a servant and advisor to Cleopatra.
Servants in ancient Egypt were washermen and women, porters, maids, weavers and cooks. They were thought to accompany their master into the next life. Royal servants probably weren't slaves. They worked in the palace to for protection and status in the palace of the pharoah. She also could have been born into a life of servitude by parents who also served the family. |
Menas
Menas, or Menodoras, was an admiral to Pompey, and probably an ex- pirate. As a pirate, he would have been in charge of capturing passing trading ships and taking their supplies.
Menas was the one who originally captured Sardinia for Pompey in 40 B.C. before it was given to him in the Treaty of Misenum.
After that treaty fell through and Octavius waged war on Pompey once again, Menas left Pompey and defected to Caesar's side. Menas was known as an infamous traitor.
Menas was the one who originally captured Sardinia for Pompey in 40 B.C. before it was given to him in the Treaty of Misenum.
After that treaty fell through and Octavius waged war on Pompey once again, Menas left Pompey and defected to Caesar's side. Menas was known as an infamous traitor.
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