"Until now, everyone has had pretty much the same fix on Cleopatra ... turned the very air around her sick with desire, a tragic figure whose bared bosom made an asp gasp when she died for ...

Soundly defeated, Cleopatra could negotiate only the form of her surrender ... Very likely she enlisted a gentle poison rather than an asp. Octavian was at once disappointed and in awe of his ...

She's everywhere, of course—her name immortalized by ... reputedly with the venom of an asp. The Roman historian Dio Cassius reported that Cleopatra's body was embalmed as Antony's had been ...

The narrative of Cleopatra displays the art of balancing being a woman in power while also managing public perception. Laurie ...

Cleopatra followed, bringing along her young son Ptolemy XV Caesar, also called Caesarion, whom she claimed was the son of Julius Caesar. Romans did not know what to make of her. They were ...

Before her arrival there, Cleopatra Syra’s mother-in-law ... no-nonsense queens reaching for the nearest asp. Mr. Carter is vice chairman of 20th and 21st-century art at Christie’s in New ...

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was born in 69 BC into the Ptolemaic dynasty, founded by Ptolemy I, a Macedonian Greek, a part of the army of Alexander the Great, who had conquered Egypt and founded ...

While speaking with Vogue Hong Kong about her new Netflix film Heart of Stone for the magazine's July issue, Gadot, 38, noted that she grew up understanding the ancient queen Cleopatra as "a ...