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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Egyptian queen frequently surrounded herself with splendor, but luxury was less an indulgence than a political tool. "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1885 The struggle with her ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff’s erudite, well-researched and often witty reconstruction of the brief life of Cleopatra, now out in paperback, establishes in her opening pages the fact ...

Angelina Jolie is older, prettier and paler than Cleopatra was at the height of her reign. A veteran journalist for over 60 years, Marsh was the recipient of 12 Regional Emmy Awards for his television ...