Title: Cleopatra
Description: Cleopatra, a competent Hellenistic ruler who was celibate for over half of her adult life, has been remembered as the heroine of an exotic love story and has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it.
Subjects: In literature, Queens in literature, Queens, Mythology, Biography, Women, Cleopatra, queen of egypt, -30 b.c., Literature, Ikonographie, Literatur, Biografie, New York Times reviewed, Women, mythology, Kings and rulers
Places: Egypt
People: Cleopatra Queen of Egypt (d. 30 B.C)