Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

She may be one of the most recognizable figures in history, but we have little idea what Cleopatra actually looked like. Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime, and which she likely ...

Her portrait busts ranged from heroic images of ... sent works to the Centennial Exposition. Lewis sculpted Cleopatra, a popular subject at the time. An astute ruler romantically linked to Julius ...

She not only helped develop the hit 1970s show, but also acted in it, and had a decades-long career in film, TV and theater.

A new social media trend, fueled by AI, imagines how historical figures would have used Snapchat. Users are creating videos ...

She won an Emmy as Rose Buck, the prim and proper parlor maid, and also appeared in Shakespeare plays, a Hitchcock thriller ...

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett is a unique portrait of a family ... After the runaway success of Coco Mellor’s Cleopatra and Frankenstein in 2022, the author’s follow-up, Blue Sisters ...

A timeless tale of power, passion, and betrayal returns to the High Plains this spring as Lone Star Ballet revives its entrancing “Cleopatra.” With a unique blend of classical and contemporary ...

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Here are some of the best examples of great actors playing famous kings and queens throughout history. Stories about Kings, ...