Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction Watterson Barbara
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction Watterson Barbara Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. Shakespeare himself was inspired…
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Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction Watterson Barbara
Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. Shakespeare himself was inspired by Plutarch, who was only sixteen years old when Cleopatra died. We think we know her story, but our image of her is largely gleaned from the film starring Elizabeth Taylor or from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
In the middle of the first century BC, Cleopatra caught the attention of Rome by captivating the two most powerful Romans of the day, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. So her story was never based purely on fact. She outlived both and attempted to suborn a third, her mortal enemy, Octavius Caesar, the first of the Roman Emperors.
Having failed to do so she destroyed herself. We can tell that Cleopatra was highly intelligent and politically astute and that she wielded great power. But Roman histories heaped opprobrium upon her.
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