
Yeah, I know I’m late to this one. Listen, if you want timely jokes, don’t get them from a historian.
The Cleopatra-race discourse is hot just now, but, like most ancient historians, I have no energy for it. These arguments have been had, the evidence has been thoroughly gone over, and there’s no new ground to cover, so we might as well just have fun with the people who care way too much about one answer or another.
Another entry in my “Dungeons & Dragons taught us how to do taxes” series.