In 41 B.C.E., Egyptian queen Cleopatra convinced Mark Antony, her political ally and lover, to arrange the murder of her own ...

Historically, Cleopatra (69–30 B.C.) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. She formed strategic ...

The Egyptian queen, shown here in a 19th-century engraving, sneaked back from exile and surprised Julius Caesar. Granger Collection, New York Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation ...

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

After conquering Egypt, Greek and Macedonian military leaders took power and made Alexandria a center of commerce and ...

R.B. Schlather’s vibrant staging of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare,” playing in the Hudson Valley, is a bright spot in a bleak ...

But Cleopatra was not the only ancient Egyptian ... her brother Ptolemy XIII, and then to use Julius Caesar’s invasion of Egypt in 47 BCE as a way of cementing her rule. She arrived in Rome ...

Though he was born centuries ago, we're still watching his plays and studying his works. And his words continue to resonate today.

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”).