Ask Helena Ruoti how she sees Cleopatra and a cornucopia of adjectives tumble forth -- vivacious, intelligent, educated and cunning. She was a Mata Hari type and that's what made her so exciting," says Ruoti, who will play Cleopatra in Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre's season opening production of "Antony & Cleopatra." "She spoke nine languages. She guerillaed her way onto the Actium battlefield. She was so wealthy, so resourceful and (someone) who could speak (directly) to the kings, they wanted to fight on their side.
... and her liaisons -- first with Julius Caesar and later with Antony -- have occupied the imagina... in 2013, based on Stacy Schiff's biography, "Cleopatra: A Life.". Writers and historians on C...27 B.C. Octavius Caesar becomes Emperor Augustus Caesar. Source: "Essential Shakespeare Handbook," ...
... woman who made her tantalizing way through Caesar and then Antony--all for the sake of a little fema... Octavian (later to become the emperor Augustus) from undermining his political standing at home b... it is obvious from his highly readable biography of the two players in this most contentious of all...
...The cover of Stacy Schiff's newest biography, Cleopatra: A Life, shows a woman adorned in pearl... the most powerful men of the era: Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. We do not know, for example, who ... would go on to become the Roman Emperor Augustus, ended her reign and killed her firstborn son, fat...
Anthony Everitt did a remarkable thing a few years ago when he turned Latin students' most loathed subject into a best selling star with "Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician." In fleshing out the ingenious, idealistic and near-repellent narcissist, Mr. Everitt set his mark as the premier Roman biographer except for that "greatest politician" part, which one hopes was an overzealous publisher's mistake. Mr. Everitt returns to first century B.C. Rome with a politician who truly deserves that appellation, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus. It is an ambitious choice for a second book, but Mr. Everitt handles one of history's most complicated personages with considerable skill. Whereas Cicero left behind a voluminous collection of speeches, books a...
... he had produced a novel, rather than a biography. However, my guess is that if a reader held the au...
While the great playwrights Shakespeare and Shaw have helped immortalize her, let's face it, the name Cleopatra summons up images straight out of Hollywood - not Egypt or the London stage. Elizabeth Taylor, Claudette Colbert and a host of other beauties have oozed sex on the screen as the "whore queen," a woman who had two of the most powerful men in the Hellenistic world - Julius Caesar and Marc Antony - succumbing to her charms during her reign in the middle of the first century B.C.
... it's because Octavian, later the Emperor Augustus, had to have a great opponent as a treacherous and...
If you have always had a soft spot for the intrigue and romance of the nobility and their court alliances and rivalries, then the following fiction and nonfiction titles will provide you with many new reading adventures. In "To Defy a King," author Elizabeth Chadwick creates a medieval romance based on historical figures living a generation after William the Conqueror's English victory in 1066. Mahelt, daughter of the noble Englishman William the Marshal, is the center of the story. Even though she does not have the historical fame of her father, primary sources allow Chadwick to offer readers a glimpse of Mahelt's true spirit.
...In the biography "A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King C..., the Empress Livia, the second wife of Caesar Augustus. Since then, Livia has been perceived as ...
Antony and Cleopatra, the names conjure up a variety of images that include Roman military might, eastern decadence and a pair of tragic star-crossed lovers. Some of that is actually accurate, but much of it is romanticized fiction. In his latest study of the Roman world, Adrian Goldsworthy takes on the task of separating truth from fiction, and he does a good job of it.
... scion of a prominent Roman family, his biography is well recorded. We know much less about Cleopatr...Octavian became the emperor Augustus and essentially ruled well for many years. The bet...
Die Bildnisse des Augustus, Das romische Herrscherbild, pt. 1, vol. 2 . Berli... style, which most likely followed that of Caesar, was of a simple, classicizing type, or what might... its effects in such literary works as biography and history. Because the ancients believed that ph...
Arts, criticism and letters Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape," edited by Barry Lopez. What's a "nubble"? The answer is here.
...Biography. "At Canaan's Edge," by Taylor Branch. Final volum...is another triumph. "Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor," by Anthony Eve..."Caesar," by Adrian Goldsworthy. As with Augustus, the anc...
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