Netflix has been diving headlong into the lives of powerful queens, and its newest four-part docuseries on Cleopatra is no exception. Queen Cleopatra delves into the life of one of the most iconic ...

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous, yet more poorly understood, than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The author of a new biography on Queen Cleopatra will read from her book, Cleopatra: A Life, tonight at the Central Branch of the Free Library. Her book is the basis for a movie ...

Heartbroken by my failure to hear biographer Stacy Schiff speak when she was in Chicago last week, I lassoed her by email to discuss one of my favorite subjects: biography. Q: What is essential to the ...

Cleopatra has generated more fame -- in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films -- per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Angelina Jolie is older, prettier and paler than Cleopatra was at the height of her reign. But if a much-discussed movie is made ...

In 34 BC, at the height of her power, Cleopatra VII joined her consort and ally, Mark Antony, atop a pair of golden thrones in an eye-popping, kingdom-dispensing (and ultimately ill-advised) ...

We think we know Cleopatra. But do we? Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer-winning nonfiction writer, turns her hand to this question in her sparkling new book, “Cleopatra: A Life.” “I wanted to take a story we ...

Trysts were only one aspect of this powerful female ruler's life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Cleopatra VII, often simply ...

You think 21st century culture is celebrity-obsessed? Try Mediterranean society at the dawn of the first millennium, when politics were entirely personal, and rulers’ romantic entanglements could be ...

Forget what you think you know about Cleopatra. She wasn't a voracious seductress who led men to their doom. She never wore bangs à la Liz Taylor circa 1963. And she almost certainly didn't die by the ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...