Egypt
Voice of America (David Byrd)
- Angelina As Cleopatra Causes Backlash
I was waiting for this. It is a highly emotive topic. These are just a small sample of what's landing in my inbox. Deadbolt News Although Angelina Jolie has amassed millions of fans and is up for the role of Cleopatra in an upcoming film about the...
- Book Review: Cleopatra - A Biography
npr With an exerpt from the book following the review. Cleopatra was a tragic temptress who left a string of broken hearts up and down the Nile -- or at least, that's what her enemies in Rome wanted you to think. Now, a new biography of the Egyptian...
- Who’s Really Buried In Cleopatra’s Tomb?
Emory University Student Newspaper (Asher Smith) Last week, archaeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic began a radar survey of three tombs from the temple of Taposiris Magna, with the hope of unearthing the resting place of the losers of the...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
JS Online (Allen Barra) Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt. By Joyce Tyldesley. Basic Books. Cleopatra has generated more fame - in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films - per known fact than any woman in history. Advertisement As Joyce Tyldesley...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
STLtoday (Allen Barra) Cleopatra has generated more fame — in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films — per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, "Cleopatra:...
Egypt
Review: Schiff's Cleopatra
Voice of America (David Byrd)
A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff tackles the life, death and legacy of Cleopatra. Schiff's work challenges some of the assumptions long held about Egypt's last queen..
It has been said that history is written by the victors. Nowhere is that sentiment more clearly illustrated than when exploring the reign of Cleopatra. Most of what we know of her was written by her enemies - the Roman historians Plutarch, Dio and Appian. Cicero didn't even mention her name when he said I despise the queen. But now Schiff is attempting to separate fact from propaganda in her new book Cleopatra: A Life.
Schiff said the popular image of Cleopatra is far from the truth. In fact, the last queen of Egypt was a highly-educated, multilingual, shrewd ruler who was the equal of any monarch of her time.
"She would have had precisely the education that someone like Caesar or Cicero had," said Schiff
- Angelina As Cleopatra Causes Backlash
I was waiting for this. It is a highly emotive topic. These are just a small sample of what's landing in my inbox. Deadbolt News Although Angelina Jolie has amassed millions of fans and is up for the role of Cleopatra in an upcoming film about the...
- Book Review: Cleopatra - A Biography
npr With an exerpt from the book following the review. Cleopatra was a tragic temptress who left a string of broken hearts up and down the Nile -- or at least, that's what her enemies in Rome wanted you to think. Now, a new biography of the Egyptian...
- Who’s Really Buried In Cleopatra’s Tomb?
Emory University Student Newspaper (Asher Smith) Last week, archaeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic began a radar survey of three tombs from the temple of Taposiris Magna, with the hope of unearthing the resting place of the losers of the...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
JS Online (Allen Barra) Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt. By Joyce Tyldesley. Basic Books. Cleopatra has generated more fame - in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films - per known fact than any woman in history. Advertisement As Joyce Tyldesley...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
STLtoday (Allen Barra) Cleopatra has generated more fame — in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films — per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, "Cleopatra:...