3. Dying Like a Queen: The Story of Cleopatra and the Asp(s) in Antiquity

Chapters in this book

1. Contents v
2. Illustrations vii
3. Preface xi
4. Cleopatra in Egypt, Europe, and New York. An Introduction 1
5. 1. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt 21
6. 2. Cleopatra in Rome: Facts and Fantasies 37
7. 3. Dying Like a Queen: The Story of Cleopatra and the Asp(s) in Antiquity 54
8. 4. Cleopatra, Isis, and the Formation of Augustan Rome 78
9. 5. Love, Triumph, Tragedy: Cleopatra and Egypt in High Renaissance Rome 96
10. 6. The Amazing Afterlife of Cleopatra’s Love Potions 132
11. 7. HRH Cleopatra: The Last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 150
12. 8. Glamour Girls: Cleomania in Mass Culture 172
13. 9. Every Man’s Cleopatra 195
14. Epilogue. Cleopatra The Sphinx Revisited 208
15. Bibliography 213
16. Contributors 233
17. Index 235