The major ancient sources of this possible modern pseudodoxia are Pliny, Plutarch and Appian. He gives no details about the portrait. It seems most unlikely that anyone could possibly mistake even an unfinished picture of Medea for a portrait of Cleopatra, but that is one possible solution. In any case, Signor Micheli's painting, which I am still attempting to track down, sounds very much like a Renaissance portrait that I have seen. Finally, one modern and very secondary source asserts that there was a portrait of Cleopatra by Timomachus and that copies are known.
Earlier editions reverse the position.
Presentazione del prof. Florence, L.S. Olschki, 1959. To Chapter 13 This page is maintained at the University of Chicago by James Eason , who welcomes comments, criticism, and suggestions.