Queen Cleopatra's life is explored in a Netflix docuseries by the same name. The Egyptian queen had at least 2 husbands and famous lovers. Here's what to know: ...

In some ways, Cleopatra’s career mirrors her husband’s. She was born in Alexandria around 40 B.C. Antony was a largely absent father, but when his daughter was about 6, ...

The consensus remained that Fulvia had whipped up civil war in response to her husband’s affair with Cleopatra alone. Her efforts to help Antony were never recognized. If Cleopatra believed she ...

Sisters waged war against brothers. Cleopatra’s great-grandmother fought one civil war against her parents, a second against her children…. Berenice II’s mother borrowed Berenice’s foreign-born ...

Throughout her reign, Cleopatra was also careful not to depict herself as a wife or consort but rather as Isis, the great Egyptian goddess who raised her son alone, without her slain husband, Osiris.

Judi Dench talks Shakespearean journey, new book 07:45. Judi Dench has tackled nearly every female role in William Shakespeare's plays, from Juliet to Cleopatra, in her illustrious seven-decade ...