Cleopatra: Liberated Woman
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Recommended Media
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Docudrama
Smithsonian docudrama
Selected Web Resources: Print
- BIOGRAPHY (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra
- BIOGRAPHY (History Channel): https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/cleopatra
- BIOGRAPHY (Biography Channel): https://www.biography.com/people/cleopatra-vii-9250984
- BIOGRAPHY (Britannica): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cleopatra-queen-of-Egypt
- SMITHSONIAN ARTICLE (Rehabilitating Cleopatra): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rehabilitating-cleopatra-70613486/
- SMITHSONIAN ARTICLE (Who Was Cleopatra?): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-cleopatra-151356013/
- ANCIENT HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA: https://www.ancient.eu/Cleopatra_VII/
- LIVE SCIENCE OVERVIEW: https://www.livescience.com/44071-cleopatra-biography.html
- BATTLE OF ACTIUM: https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/cleopatra-battle-of-actium.htm
- REIGN OF CLEOPATRA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Cleopatra
- DEATH OF CLEOPATRA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Cleopatra
- DEATH OF CLEOPATRA (HISTORY CHANNEL): https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cleopatra-commits-suicide
- UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO/ENCYCLOPEDIA ROMANA (Individual links to aspects of her life and death): http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/Encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/cleopatra/cleopatra.html
- DEATH OF CLEOPATRA (ANCIENT EGYPT ONLINE; links to other aspects of her life): https://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/Cleopatra-death.html
- CLEOPATRA TIMELINE (SoftSchools.com): http://www.softschools.com/timelines/cleopatra_timeline/62/
- CLEOPATRA TIMELINE (SANE JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY): http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cleopatra.htm
- CLEOPATRA: TIMELINE (ANCIENT HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA): https://www.ancient.eu/timeline/Cleopatra_VII/
- CLEOPATRA TIMELINE (ThoughtCo.com): https://www.thoughtco.com/timeline-major-events-life-of-cleopatra-117789
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Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae (1896)
Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners (1887)
Alexandre Cabanel
Selected Web Resources: Video
- OVERVIEW ANIMATED TED TALK [5 minutes]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EhRwn4zkc
- 15 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT CLEOPATRA [11 minutes]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imf5fpMQYcg&t=30s
- CLEOPATRA’S EGYPT [22 minutes]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX1CFsaCcW8
- EGYPT’S LOST QUEENS (Hetepheres, Hatshepsut, Nefertari, Arsinoe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3aNbNxKS6s
- THE DEATH OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (26 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EezHXh-UG-c
- CLEOPATRA’S LOST TOMB (44 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G69n11o3z8
- CLEOPATRA’S TOMB (9 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNvoFZzYTyE
The Death of Cleopatra (1881)
Juan Luna
The Banquet of Cleopatra (1743)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Selected Artwork Used in Presentation
1. Frederick Bridgman, Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae (1896)2. The Palace of Cleopatra © ANCIENT VINE Studios3. "Painted image from a villa at Herculaneum portraying a red-haired woman whose facial features, royal diadem, and hairstyle adorned with fine pearl-studded hairpins suggest a posthumous portrait of Cleopatra VII.”4. Cleopatra Before Caesar, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1866).5. The Death of Julius Caesar, Vincenzo Camuccini (1806) 6. The Death of Brutus following the Battle of Philippi, 19th-century engraving.7. Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra, Sir Frank Dicksee (engraving; late-19th century)8. Cleopatra visits Herod at Jerusalem, 33 B.C. from Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.9. The Death of Cleopatra, Gerard de Lairesse (unknown dte)10. Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners, Alexandre Cabanel (1887)11. The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1884)12. Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra, Jan Steen (ca. 1673–75)13. Cleopatra and the Asp, Michel Corneille (c. 1655)14. The Death of Cleopatra, Reginald Arthur (1892)15. The Death of Cleopatra, German von Bohn (1841)16. The Banquet of Cleopatra, Giambattisa Tiepolo (1743-1744)
The Death of Cleopatra, Reginald Arthur (1892)
Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra, Sir Frank Dicksee (engraving; late-19th century)