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 ...

Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”, a four-part docuseries exploring the life and reign of Cleopatra, was released this month to almost immediate criticism. The series, produced by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith ...

Cleopatra VII, the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, remains one of history’s most studied and debated ...

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 ...

Cleopatra, the world's first female superstar, has held people's fascination for more than 2,000 years. Now her story is being retold in the rock opera, Cleopatra, A Life Unparalleled, at the Crystal ...

Cleopatra has become a recognized figure in pop culture. These are the best movies that capture her iconic beauty and power.

She is the stuff of myth and legend, one of history’s great heroines: Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Subject of Shakespeare, Shaw and, of course, the cinema. But ...

The Egyptian ruler Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, but still has a powerful presence today. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new ...

We have underestimated Cleopatra for too long, said Kathryn Harrison in The New York Times. Stacy Schiff’s enthralling new biography reveals to those of us misled by literature and film that the ...

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 ...