The outrage felt by Greeks, primarily from the Diaspora, and Egyptians and Slavitsa from Thomastown who dressed up as Kleopatra for the 1993 Miss Bitola beauty pageant, at Netflix's casting British actor of Adele James to play the iconic queen in Jada Pinkett Smith's docudrama "Queen Cleopatra," is symptomatic of a trend to diminish the achievements of ancient Greek civilisation .