military historian Stephen Dando-Collins turns to one of the most celebrated chapters of ancient Roman history鈥揓ulius Caesar's sojourn in Egypt and his love affair with 21-year-old Queen Cleopatra. He shows how
Open Document OK…here is my logic. This is Jody Mayfield. Cleopatra and Anthony are dead. On the floor is broken glass, with it is water. Caesar is accused. How did Cleopatra die? This was a stunner. But my first clue that something was deceptive about this was the name “Anthony.”...
In the 16th century B.C., three steadfast, wise, and powerful queens led Egypt against Hyksos invaders—and won.
4. Ptolemaic Egypt Ptolemaic Egypt lasted from 332 BC to 30 BC. It begins when Ptolemy I, a general under Alexander the Great, declared himself Pharoah and ends with Queen Cleopatra during the Roman Invasion. So, it lasted roughly 300 years. 5. Carthage (Tunisia) The Phoenicians founded Car...
Everyone from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar (pictured) was said to have visited Alexander's tomb. Historia/Shutterstock What Alexander achieved in his 32 years is “unique,” says Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis professor emeritus of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge, who adds that the Macedo...
Women in ancient Egypt did not only rule the country and become pharaohs, but also shared equal basic human rights as men. Women such as Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, and Cleopatra were able to take the stand and break the stigma of the typical minority that are deprived of many rights, and most...
Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, lived closer to Bitcoin’s creation than the building of the Great Pyramid. That fractured many a sense of time. We tend to think of Ancient Egypt as one expansive epoch – pharaohs in golden death masks, crypts of sandstone, the eternal Nile ever flo...
In this play,Mark Antony, one of three rulers of the Roman Empire, is in Egypt enjoying a love affair with the enchantingQueen Cleopatra. Before long, however, he learns that his wife has died and a rival is threatening to usurp power from the triumvirate. Mark Antony decides to return ...
Many years later, Antipater and his mother were welcomed back into the court. But as Herod was nearing death in 4 BC, there was some intrigue in which Doris and Antipater were implicated. Herod had his son executed, and Doris was banished . . . again. Mariamne I Herod’s second ...
That’s a longer period of continuous culture than even Ancient Egypt, which lasted 31 centuries from the First Dynasty to the suicide of Cleopatra. China, Korea and Japan seem to have each settled on 5000 years as the official claim for age of their own civilisation. That’s partly a ...