Egypt
- 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, 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...
- Why Cleo Is Both Hit And Myth
Manchester Evening News (Helen Tither) Joyce Tyldesley talking about Cleopatra: THE thick kohl eyeliner, the raven black hair, those sultry, seductive eyes - for most of us Elizabeth Taylor is the embodiment of Cleopatra. Oozing sex appeal in her legendary...
- Hairstyles Of Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060313/cleopatra_his_02.html "Egyptian queen Cleopatra used her hairstyles in calculated ways to enhance her power and fame, according to a book published recently by a Yale art history and classics professor. Statues,...
- More On Cleopatra Dressed As A Man
http://abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1466031.htm In an article entitled "Was Cleopatra a Drag Queen" (!) this ABC news item covers the story, which has been raised a couple of times in this blog, about images of Cleopatra depicted in...
Egypt
Was Cleopatra black?
http://www.thewestsidegazette.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=64481&sID=4
"Watching a local television program recently, I heard Spike Lee express his belief that Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was Black. The African American hostess of the TV show agreed with Mr. Lee saying “Cleopatra certainly looked nothing like Elizabeth Taylor”. But the historical facts contradict Spike Lee’s belief. Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt [for indeed that was who Spike Lee was referring to] was definitely not Black. And since I have dared to follow in the footsteps of that literary genius, Frank Yerby who was known as ‘debunker of historical myth’, I realized that I had to marshal the proofs of Queen Cleopatra’s ancestry that would satisfy any reasonable person that she was a white European".
See the above article for the full story.
- 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, 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...
- Why Cleo Is Both Hit And Myth
Manchester Evening News (Helen Tither) Joyce Tyldesley talking about Cleopatra: THE thick kohl eyeliner, the raven black hair, those sultry, seductive eyes - for most of us Elizabeth Taylor is the embodiment of Cleopatra. Oozing sex appeal in her legendary...
- Hairstyles Of Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060313/cleopatra_his_02.html "Egyptian queen Cleopatra used her hairstyles in calculated ways to enhance her power and fame, according to a book published recently by a Yale art history and classics professor. Statues,...
- More On Cleopatra Dressed As A Man
http://abc.net.au/science/news/ancient/AncientRepublish_1466031.htm In an article entitled "Was Cleopatra a Drag Queen" (!) this ABC news item covers the story, which has been raised a couple of times in this blog, about images of Cleopatra depicted in...