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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...