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Honors 141: Cleopatra

Eyewitnesses to Cleopatra

• Ptolemy Auletes - father
• Ptolemy XIII - brother
• Arsinoe - sister
• Pothinus - enemy
• Julius Caesar - lover
• Calpurnia - wife of JC
• Cicero - Roman enemy
• Mark Antony - lover
• Cleopatra Selene - daughter
• Octavian - enemy
• Octavia - wife of MA
• Marcus Agrippa - general of Octavian
• Apollodorus - Bodyguard of C
• Iras - slave of C
• Charmion - slave of C
• Horace - poet

Ancient Topics

• Sources of Egyptian wealth and power
• The City of Alexandria
• The worship of Isis in the Greek and Roman World
• Other powerful Hellenistic Queens
• Was Cleopatra beautiful?
• Was Cleopatra Black?
• The Civil War between Caesar and Pompey
• Caesar's campaign in Alexandria
• What was Julius Caesar planning to do at the time of his assassination?
• The Second Triumvirate
• The Parthian threat to the Roman East
• Donations of Alexandria
• Was Cleopatra motivated by sex and love?
• Naval warfare in the first century AD.
• The Battle of Actium
• The death of Cleopatra, how and why.

Contemporary Topics:

• Costumes in Dramatic Theater productions
• Adolescent Books
• Children's Books
• Opera
• Comic books and animated films
• Stage and Filmed versions of Anthony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra
• Artistic representations
• Pin ups and Erotica
• Hollywood: Pre-63
• Comedy and Parodies
• Popular music
• Dolls
• Musical Theater productions
• Cleopatra on the WWW
• Poetry
• Cleopatra in the Afro-American Experience
  

Works of Fiction:

• Balderston, John L. And Sybil Bolitho. A Goddess to a God. New York, Macmillan, 1948
• Barrington, E. The Laughing Queen. Canada: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1929.
• Bradshaw, Gillian. Cleopatra's Heir. New York, Forge, 2002.
• Butts, Mary. Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra. The Classical Novels. New York: McPherson & Company, 1937.
• Chase - Riboud, Barbara. Portrait of Cleopatra as a Nude Woman. New York, Quill, 1987.
• Essex, Karen. Kleopatra, A Novel. New York, Warner Books, 2001.
• Essex, Karen. Pharoah. New York, Warner Books, 2002.
• Falconer, Colin. When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra. New York: Crown, 2000.
• Ferval, Claude. Cleopatra. Trans. M. F. Poindexter. Garden City, New York:
  Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1927.
• George, Margaret. The Memoirs of Cleopatra. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997
• Haggard, H. Rider. Cleopatra. New York: McKinlay, Stone, and MacKenzie, 1914.
• Mundy, Talbot. Queen Cleopatra. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril Publishers, 1929.
• Rofheart, Martha. The Alexandrian. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976.
• Tarr, Judith. Throne of Isis. New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1994.
  
• Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. Channeling Cleopatra. New York, Ace, 2002.