The contested figure of Cleopatra is a result of a long history of representations and (re-)stagings. Fighting over her ancestry is futile. Equally futile is the fight over whose representation ...

James is of racially mixed ancestry and is also British. Rather than applauding a Cleopatra closer in resemblance to actual Egyptian women, there has been a backlash to the reproduction of white ...

At the crux of the debate among historians has been whether Cleopatra, who hailed from a long line of Macedonian Greeks, would have darker skin because of her African ancestry. Those who support ...

She is also Black. Cleopatra, countered Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry, was white, with “Hellenistic characteristics,” an assertion that her Greek Macedonian ancestry and coin portraits would ...

Netflix’s casting was informed by the views of Shelley Haley, a renowned classicist and Cleopatra expert, who claims that, although evidence of her ancestry and physical attributes are ...