The same goal drives a new full-length biography, Cleopatra’s Daughter: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen, by Jane Draycott, a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Glasgow.

The Greek queen of Egypt Cleopatra is associated with a very public love affair with Roman leader Julius Caesar apart from ...

The queens of ancient Egypt say yes ... In response, Cleopatra briefly fled to Roman-controlled Syria. Cleopatra’s father had been sympathetic to—and reliant on—Rome during his rule.

the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the biggest prize in the ancient world ...

most of which may not even be of Cleopatra. Ancient historians praised her allure, not her looks. Certainly she possessed the ability to roil passions in two powerful Roman men: Julius Caesar ...

such as the sex panic comedy "Barebacking" earlier this year, he can both stimulate and entertain at a breakneck pace. In "Cleopatra: The Musical," his theatrical juice runs dry in ancient Rome.

Cleopatra lived between 69 B.C. and ... to avoid being paraded in chains on the streets of Rome in Octavian's triumph. "The ancient sources also tell us that she asked to be buried beside Mark ...

Much of the contemporary understanding of Cleopatra is based on the accounts of ancient Roman and Greek historians who undoubtedly held a bias towards her. An autopsy of her mummy might reveal ...