Historic figures like Cleopatra take on a rather mythical quality over time. Between her very real reign, torrid love life, ...

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous, yet more poorly understood, than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed ...

It's as though Cleopatra lives and breathes once again in the pages of Stacy Schiff's exquisitely researched and well-written “Cleopatra: A Life.” The book injects the Egyptian queen with a complexity ...

Cleopatra played a difficult and skilful game negotiating relations with Rome, engaging both diplomatically and personally first with Julius Caesar and then Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Our experts ...

She was a child of incest, a born goddess, a queen by 18 -- and possibly the richest magnate in the Mediterranean before she turned 20. By 21, she was cavorting in bed with the most powerful emperor ...

This queen of Egypt was not unusually attractive, author Stacy Schiff argues, but her arresting, enthralling personality captured the love and attention of two of the world’s greatest leaders. At the ...

How many of you enjoy a good biography? If you do, you may want to check out "Cleopatra: A Life," written by Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff. Let me start off by saying I have not read this book.