Cleopatra

Contrary to most of her pop culture mentions, Cleopatra was much more than the sum of her infamous affairs.

Remember the fiasco of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra?

Schiff, for instance, conjures a scene with the young Cleopatra “scampering down the colonnaded walkways of the palace.”

This document was unknown in 1985 when the last page was closed on my seventh Cleopatra.

Mark Antony supposedly gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and King Richard the Lionheart wed Queen Joanna there in 1191.

Later at the Pendleton home, the mother, Cleopatra Crowley-Pendleton, spoke of a daughter who loved reading and writing and Latin.

Cleopatra's coffin, head of the Theban ram, and other Egyptian curiosities, arrived in England.

They look like two needles, and certainly are more deserving of the name than that of Cleopatra at Alexandria.

So might Cleopatra have said when she tried the effect of poisons on her slaves before making her own choice.

Antony and Cleopatra had been captured and brought into the dining-room, where they were to spend the winter in a glass bowl.

And in "Antony and Cleopatra" we make the acquaintance of several exemplary common soldiers.