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Re: Charmaine?
by Megan LC (guest)
5/3/2007, 8:22 AM
in reply to a message by Jen
Charmaine is supposedly the name of one of Cleopatra VII's personal attendants (read slave). She was in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and was one of the only people around when Cleo finally killed herself. Charmaine may be related to Caroline (through Charles) or kharmion in greek, which means delightful.
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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
5/3/2007, 11:59 AM
Charmian, not Charmaine....Charmian, not Charmaine, is the name of that attendant of Cleopatra's in Shakespeare. I don't think there is any good evidence that Charmaine and Charmian are related, though that is a guess a lot of people have made.
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