Classics Department

Classics: Documentaries and Web Sites about Cleopatra

Documentaries:

Cleopatra Biographies

• Cleopatra: The First Woman of Power Questar Video Collection. 1999.
• Cleopatra: Intimate Portrait. Lifetime Home Video. 1997.
• Cleopatra: Destiny’s Queen. A&E Biography. 1996.
• Cleopatra’s World: Alexandria Revealed. A&E Home Video. 1996.

 

Alexandria

• Cleopatra’s Alexandria. Kultur Video.
• Cleopatra’s Palace: In Search of a Legend. Discovery Channel Video. 1999.

 

Web Sites:

Cleopatra: biographies

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/cleopatra/

Links to biographical information, a Cleopatra timeline, and Cleopatra in the Arts (film, literature and sculpture), literature online, images, articles

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/alexandria/History/cleo.html

http://interoz.com/egypt/cleopatr.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/11402/bio_cleopatra.html?tqskip=1

http://members.aol.com/DKaplan888/cleo.htm

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/7037/cleo.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ct/cleopatra7/ http://www.duke.edu/~aad1/

http://www.sangha.net/messengers/Cleopatra.htm

http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac//thalassa/cleopatra.htm

Cleopatra in the Arts

http://www.artic.edu/cleo/index.html

The Art Institute of Chicago Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World: Cleopatra, shows depictions of artistic production in Egypt, Greece and Rome, Italy during the time of Cleopatra

http://www.fmnh.org/cleopatra/cleoexhib.html

Cleopatra Exhibition at the Field Museum

Cleopatra costumes on Stage and Film

http://uk.imdb.com/M/title-substring?title=cleopatra

Internet Movie Database Cleopatra Movie listing

http://www.cleopatra-2525.com/cleopatra/index.html

Fan Web Site for the TV Show Cleopatra 2525

http://www.cleorecs.com/

Web Site for Cleopatra Records

http://loki.stockton.edu/~roman/fiction/cleopatra.htm

An extensive listing of novels featuring Cleopatra

Ancient Sources

http://www.engl.uvic.ca/faculty/mbhomepage/Isshakespeare/resources/plutarch/cleopatra.html

A comparison between Shakespeare and Plutarch text

Entertainment/Unusual Web Sites

http://touregypt.net/ename/

Egyptian Name Translator – change your name into hieroglyphics!

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/Wonders/new.html#pharos

Seven Wonders of the World Updates: Lighthouse of Alexandria

http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/cleopatra/cleopatra.html

Provides a seven act soap opera transcript of the love affair of Cleopatra and Marc Antony as told my Plutarch

http://cleopatra.impressionsgames.com/

Web site for the Computer Game: Cleopatra - -http://cleopatra.impressionsgames.com/screenshots.shtml

http://www.cleopatras-casino.com/

An online casino game with a Cleopatra theme

http://www.cleopatrabottles.com/

Online Fragrance distributor

http://www.cleopatrahospital.com/ http://www.cleopatrasneedle.co.uk/home.htm

A UK based needlecrafts manufacturer

http://www.cleosecret.com/

A web site which sells a hair removal product – Cleo’s Secret

http://ww3.interoz.com/hotels/toursearch.ihtml?id=687&step=3

Site about "The Cleopatra" a three star hotel in Aswan

http://home2.planetinternet.be/verjans/Political_Divas/Cleopatra.htm

Site about Diva’s which lists Cleopatra as one of its top "political divas" Web