For two thousand years we were told Cleopatra was a seductress who seduced two Romans and died for love. Rome's poets made ...

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Bowing to perhaps the most famous woman ever to have lived, the Field Museum will host the greatest exhibition on Cleopatra ever mounted, using hundreds of pieces of artwork and artifacts drawn from ...

Cinematic sleights of hand can prove impossible to undo—Moses will forever be Charlton Heston, as Patton will live on as George C. Scott—but Cleopatra looked nothing like Theda Bara, Claudette Colbert ...

Cleopatra was a tragic temptress who left a string of broken hearts up and down the Nile -- or at least, that's what her enemies in Rome wanted you to think. Now, a new biography of the Egyptian queen ...

The Egyptian queen frequently surrounded herself with splendor, but luxury was less an indulgence than a political tool. "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885 The struggle with her ...