The original Cleopatra (Cleopatra of Macedon, c. 355/354 B.C. – 308 B.C.) was the sister of Alexander the Great (July 20/21, 356 B.C. –June, 10/11, 323 B.C.). 2. Cleopatra was actually Greek ...

Daisy Dunn - Author, The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World In the first century B.C.E., Fulvia, Octavia and Cleopatra competed for Mark Antony's heart. Illustration by ...

The original Cleopatra was sung by the castrato Farinelli, a virtuoso whose fame endures, buoyed by such fictionalizations of his life as an eponymous 1994 film. Get access to all our coverage ...

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has frequently been called a "problem play." The characters do not fit into familiar Shakespearean molds, and the play itself refuses to be classified as a ...

Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic ...