Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star as Antony and Cleopatra ... from Shakespeare's tragedy with supplementary passages from Plutarch, Virgil, and other classical texts, the opera distills ...

at least in the ancient Greek historian Plutarch’s account that was later used by Shakespeare as the basis for his play Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra committed suicide in her palace in ...

This is the world into which Roman poet Juvenal infamously wrote “the mob that used to grant power, high office, the legions, everything, curtails its desires, and reveals its anxiety for two ...

as Plutarch, the Roman poet Horace, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Holland's conclusion: though the lady played fast and loose with Julius Caesar (by whom she claimed to have had a child ...

As the Greek writer and philosopher Plutarch chronicled: “Antony gave brilliant promise in his youth, they say, until his intimate friendship with Curio fell upon him like a pest. For Curio himself ...

Cleopatra and Mark Antony combined their military forces in ... when Rome annexed the country. According to Plutarch, she was the only one in her house who had learned the Egyptian language.

Antony is said to have stabbed himself with his sword, whereas Cleopatra supposedly coaxed an “asp” or poisonous snake to bite her in the arm. However, Plutarch writes that “what really took place is ...

“The attraction of her person, joining with the charm of her conversation, and the character that attended all she said or did, was something bewitching,” Plutarch tells us. “It was a pleasure merely ...