Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...
The Egyptian queen Cleopatra is often associated with glamorous beauty routines, deadly snake bites, lavish banquets and torrid affairs with some of the most notorious men in Roman history.
Her 3,000-pound masterwork, The Death of Cleopatra, commemorated another powerful woman who broke with convention…and then the sculpture disappeared. On this return episode of Sidedoor, we find them ...