Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited

CONTENTS

Illustrations vii Preface xi Cleopatra in Egypt, Europe, and New York: An Introduction 1 Margaret M. Miles University of California, Irvine 1 Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt 21 Sally-Ann Ashton Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 2 Cleopatra in Rome: Facts and Fantasies 37 Erich S. Gruen University of California, Berkeley 3 Dying Like a Queen: The Story of Cleopatra and the Asp(s) in Antiquity 54 Robert A. Gurval University of California, Los Angeles 4 Cleopatra, Isis, and the Formation of Augustan Rome 78 Sarolta A. Takács Sage College, Albany 5 Love, Triumph, Tragedy: Cleopatra and Egypt in High Renaissance Rome 96 Brian A. Curran Pennsylvania State University Contents 6 The Amazing Afterlife of Cleopatra’s Love Potions 132 Ingrid D. Rowland University of Notre Dame, Rome 7 HRH Cleopatra: The Last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 150 Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith University of California, Irvine 8 Glamour Girls: Cleomania in Mass Culture 172 Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserrat† University College, London 9 Every Man’s Cleopatra 195 Giuseppe Pucci University of Siena Epilogue Cleopatra: The Sphinx Revisited 208 Peter Green University of Texas, Austin, and University of Iowa Bibliography 213 Contributors 233 Index 235 ...