PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The author of a new biography on Queen Cleopatra will read from her book, Cleopatra: A Life, tonight at the Central Branch of the Free Library. Her book is the basis for a movie ...

Wikipedia traffic, which is documented daily, delivers a somewhat-distorted reflection of the world — the dreadful and the divine, the marvelous and the mundane. She was a supremely well-tutored ruler ...

Cleopatra has generated more fame -- in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films -- per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and ...

Heartbroken by my failure to hear biographer Stacy Schiff speak when she was in Chicago last week, I lassoed her by email to discuss one of my favorite subjects: biography. Q: What is essential to the ...

We think we know Cleopatra. But do we? Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer-winning nonfiction writer, turns her hand to this question in her sparkling new book, “Cleopatra: A Life.” “I wanted to take a story we ...

The author of an acclaimed biography of Cleopatra said she chose the ancient ruler as a subject in part because everyone knows the name but there is so much that is unknown about her. "I was startled ...

This biography is an act of liberation. Cleopatra left no diaries or other accounts of herself, and with a few notable exceptions she has been the captive of male biographers who have emphasized her ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his death in ...

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous, yet more poorly understood, than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed ...

Peter Stothard is haunted. Or perhaps enchanted? The expansively accomplished British journalist (among his credits: He was the editor of The Times from 1992 to 2002, and remains the editor of The ...