Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination American singer Katy Perry released in 2013 the song "Dark Horse" and the plot of the music video for the song was set it ancient Memphis. The video features numerous ancient Egyptian symbols and many of the things featured in it are historically accurate even though no egyptologists were consulted during its production. The turquoise makeup worn by Katy Perry in the video would have been used in Ancient Egypt, the dress she wore is similar in style to the Graeco-Roman clothes worn by nobles such as Cleopatra, the video features the Eye of Horus a powerful symbol in Ancient
Horus (athlete) Symmachus who commended him to Nicomachus Flavianus. Horus (athlete) Horus (fl. 4th century) was a Cynic philosopher and Olympic boxer who was victorious at the Olympic games in Antioch in 364 AD. He was born in Egypt, son of one Valens; Horus was originally a student of rhetoric and an athlete and was a victor at the Ancient Olympic Games in Antioch in 364, probably as a boxer. Horus was also commended in that year, alongside his brother Phanes, to Maximus "praefectus Aegypti", and Eutocius. He later turned to Cynic philosophy. Horus appears as an interlocutor in Macrobius's "Saturnalia", (dramatic