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CrateDane t1_j2285a3 wrote

> > > > > The Ptolemy line, from which Cleopatra VII (the famous Cleopatra) descended, had partial Greek ancestry.

I mean they originally were fully Greek, and they did their level best to stay that way through most of their dynastic period. Even when they adopted the local custom of sibling marriage, that would only have reduced the influx of local non-Greek heritage.

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