Mark Gagnon
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This has been a thing that people say.
I don't know the details.
All I can tell you is that most historians agree that she was Greek Macedonian.
You're welcome, Christos.
She was a Greek woman.
You're not even giving any credit to Macedon?
She was probably born in 69 BC.
into the Ptolemaic dynasty, basically the dynasty of Ptolemy, who was a Greek Macedonian royal and created this royal dynasty that basically ruled Egypt for 300 years.
Her ancestor, Ptolemy I, was one of Alexander the Great's bodyguards and one of his highest generals.
So Alexander the Great, if you don't know, we did a whole episode on him.
He basically starts conquesting the world and just goes around everywhere, goes to Egypt, goes to Alexandria, right?
Creates, well, it's not Alexandria at the time.
It's just a little beach.
But then he turns it into Alexandria named after himself.
And who does he put to run it?