Daisy Dunn - Author, The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World In the first century B.C.E., Fulvia, Octavia and Cleopatra competed for Mark ... The civil war had seen him ...

Cleopatra looks out upon Mark Antony's naval fleet during the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.—a struggle between Anthony and his co-ruler of Rome, Octavian. The Roman civil war would lead to the ...

The play was first performed around 1607, by the King's Men at either the Blackfriars Theatre or The Globe Theatre and follows the relationship between Cleopatra ... the War of Actium. Mark ...

The story follows the doomed relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Antony’s defeat at Actium and Cleopatra’s suicide. The political backdrop in Rome – ...

Ars chats with historian Barry Strauss about his book, The War that Made the Roman Empire. Read the whole story ...

“She’s powerful, cunning … kind when she wants to be,” Roben Jaoude said, describing Cleopatra, the character she portrays. “She knows what she wants.” Does she love Mark Antony?

Archaeologists have discovered a rock-cut tunnel beneath Egypt’s ancient Taposiris Magna Temple—and it may lead to the lost tomb of Cleopatra, who was the last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt from 51 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The inspirations behind the staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods. Julia Bullock as Cleopatra in John ...

General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic ...