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No, her family were of Greek stock. Ptolemy's! The Greeks, or hellenics had towns and cities in Italy at the same time as Rome was a little Etruscan backwater. As Rome grew, these were assimilated into the Roman Empire, although what we know as Greece was a dispirited selection of city states...

The ptolemy's were Greek....cleopatra etc.

Whereas the ancient Greeks main devotion was to sacrifice all sorts of animals to the gods, leave the entrails, hearts, liver etc as offerings, and to divvi up the rest of the beasts between everyone around. They didn't go in for fasting as they believed that the gods wanted them fit and well to...

Most parents make exceptions according to my teacher friends