Egypt
The Guardian, UK (Catherine Shoard)
- The Search For Cleopatra
National Geographic (Chip Brown) Where, oh where is Cleopatra? She's everywhere, of course—her name immortalized by slot machines, board games, dry cleaners, exotic dancers, and even a Mediterranean pollution-monitoring project. She is orbiting...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Trivia Round-up
This weeks round-up of trivia: Get out in front of that Epitaphhttp://tinyurl.com/cfdrn I'm not sure how Ramesses II would have felt about this piece if he had had the chance to meet Donald Trump, but here goes anyway: "Baby boomers, the increasingly...
Egypt
Trivia: Another Cleopatra movie
The Guardian, UK (Catherine Shoard)
Angelina Jolie is to star in a new film about the life of the queen of the Nile, adapted from the forthcoming biography, Cleopatra: A Life, by Pulitzer prize-winner Stacy Schiff. The book isn't published until the autumn, but producer Scott Rudin has already secured the rights, with Jolie pencilled in as the lead. "The movie is being developed for and with Jolie," said a spokesperson for Rudin.
- The Search For Cleopatra
National Geographic (Chip Brown) Where, oh where is Cleopatra? She's everywhere, of course—her name immortalized by slot machines, board games, dry cleaners, exotic dancers, and even a Mediterranean pollution-monitoring project. She is orbiting...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Trivia Round-up
This weeks round-up of trivia: Get out in front of that Epitaphhttp://tinyurl.com/cfdrn I'm not sure how Ramesses II would have felt about this piece if he had had the chance to meet Donald Trump, but here goes anyway: "Baby boomers, the increasingly...