Textuality » 4A Interacting
Cleopatra is considered the prototype of the seducer because she is nice looking, attractive, beautiful, and she has got sex appeal.
Shakespeare's play, "Antony and Cleopatra", introduces Cleopatra in the dialogue between Enobarbus, a Antony's friend and Agrippa.
She is the Queen of Egypt, but she is introduced also from her physical appearance. Her eyes, hands, bends are mentioned. Besides she is described like a mermaid, an unnatural creature. Her hands are connoted like soft flowers and her perfume is invisible and hcaptures the mind of he who smells it.
Therefore she is gentle in her moves and she is nice looking.
Images of her represent her physical aspect according to Shakespeare's lines wrote, but reading the text you can image her body, her moves and her perfume.
You can have all your senses at work. Looking at an imagine of her you can getr only her visual aspect.