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Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Language
English
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Description
A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Antony, the once-heralded leader who becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, and the multi-faceted Cleopatra.
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2007], c1994
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra Thea Philopator was a woman no man could resist: strong, beautiful, and intelligent, she knew how to manipulate the patriarchal political system of Ancient Egypt to work in her favor. In many ways she seemed to have it all, so what could have driven her to take her own life at such a young age? From her noble birth to her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony to her legendary suicide by poisonous snake.
4) Cleopatra
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Cleopatra tries to increase her power with help from the Roman Empire. Both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony fall for her. After Caesar's death Cleopatra seduces Mark Antony, but the couple soon face certain doom.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A best-selling novelist brings to life the world of ancient Egypt under the rule of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, who narrates in her own voice a sweeping saga of passion, political intrigue, and ultimately suicide to avoid humiliation at the hands of Rome. --product overview
6) Cleopatra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this epic-spectacle; its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, including Caeser, but meets her match in Marc Antony, played by Richard Burton (Elizabeth Taylor's real on again/off again husband and lover). Their passionate romance could decide the fate...
Author
Series
Masters of Rome volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A seventh installment in the popular Masters of Rome series retells the story of Antony and Cleopatra from a meticulously researched perspective that features detailed historical and psychological details about the love affair that transformed the ancient world.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Following Caesar’s assassination and Mark Antony’s defeat of the conspirators who killed Caesar, two powerful men remained in Rome—Antony and Caesar’s chosen heir, young Octavian, the future Augustus. When Antony fell in love with the most powerful woman in the world, Egypt’s ruler Cleopatra, and thwarted Octavian’s ambition to rule the empire, another civil war broke out. In 31 BC one of the largest naval battles in the ancient world...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time. In 30 BCE, the 39-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, the future first emperor Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed suicide. Historian Diana Preston explores the lives and times of a couple whose names--two...
12) Moments in time
Publisher
Discovery Education
Pub. Date
2012, [c2003?]
Language
English
Description
Archaeological finds become tickets to travel back in time.
Author
Series
Shards of heaven volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a...
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