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 ...

"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 ...

Cleopatra committed suicide in her palace in Alexandria by being bitten by an asp, a kind of venomous snake. However, while she was defeated by superior forces led by Antony’s enemy Octavian ...

that fatal asp bite... most of us only know a handful of 'facts' about the life of Cleopatra (with most of those gleaned from the Shakespeare play), but there's so much more to tell. Full of ...

In 41 B.C.E., Egyptian queen Cleopatra convinced Mark Antony, her political ally and lover, to arrange the murder of her own ...

It’s a family affair this time around, with Ben Mankiewicz examining all that went into the making of the scandalous epic ...

Artefacts found at the site, such as coins depicting Cleopatra and other figures such as Alexander the Great, have supported the theory that her tomb may be hidden somewhere within the ruins.

We haven’t done ‘Cleopatra’ since 2013, and our audiences loved it then,” Seaton said. “It’s a love story with a tragic ...

The 'Yellowjackets' actress has two children: daughter Cleopatra and son Freddie Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously ...

The former first lady got candid about living life on her own terms and not continually "going high" in the latest episode of her podcast, 'IMO' Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at ...

After all, she most often hears that she’s cute from her mom. Christina Ricci, Freddie Heerdegen, Mark Hampton, Cleopatra Hampton at the ceremony honoring Christina Ricci with a star on the ...