Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Even in outline, the life of Cleopatra Selene, daughter of the more famous Cleopatra and the Roman general Marc Antony, seems drawn from a romance novel. Orphaned at age 11 by the suicides of her ...

A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear. By Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer When you purchase an independently ...

Cleopatra played a difficult and skilful game negotiating relations with Rome, engaging both diplomatically and personally first with Julius Caesar and then Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Our experts ...

She was a child of incest, a born goddess, a queen by 18 -- and possibly the richest magnate in the Mediterranean before she turned 20. By 21, she was cavorting in bed with the most powerful emperor ...

Really, it makes you wonder. What is with all the sudden flurry of interest in Cleopatra? This new biography is out; a movie is talked about, Angelina Jolie is mentioned as a possible candidate to ...

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff. Published by Little Brown and Company, New York. 384 pages, 2010 I was first attracted to the writings of Pulitzer Prize historian Stacy Schiff through her excellent ...