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HISTORY OF CLEOPATRA

including headings The Ptolemaic inheritance, Caesar and Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Donations of Alexandria, Actium and after, ...

Caesar and Cleopatra | CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA

The arrival in Alexandria of Julius Caesar gives Cleopatra her first chance of a wider role in the world. She seizes it, becoming the mistress of the man who is now unmistakably - after his defeat of Pompey - the most po...

Antony declares Cleopatra to be the | HISTORY OF ALEXANDRIA

Donations of Alexandria

Antony declares Cleopatra to be the Queen of Kings and Caesarion the King of Kings, jointly ruling over Egypt and Cyprus and joint overlords of the kingdoms of the other children. To Alexander, his own elder son, aged si...

Antony declares Cleopatra to be the | HISTORY OF CLEOPATRA

Donations of Alexandria

Antony declares Cleopatra to be the Queen of Kings and Caesarion the King of Kings, jointly ruling over Egypt and Cyprus and joint overlords of the kingdoms of the other children. To Alexander, his own elder son, aged si...

The Battle of Actium, in 31, | HISTORY OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR

Actium and after

The Battle of Actium, in 31, decides the issue. Octavian wins. Antony and Cleopatra flee back to Egypt, where Octavian pursues them. On his arrival, in 30, they both commit suicide. Octavian stays in the east long enough...

A great crowd gathers in a | HISTORY OF ALEXANDRIA

Donations of Alexandria

A great crowd gathers in a stadium in Alexandria. All eyes are on two tiers of thrones. On the upper level sit Antony and his wife Cleopatra, robed as the Egyptian goddess Isis. On four lower thrones are their own three...

A great crowd gathers in a | HISTORY OF CLEOPATRA

Donations of Alexandria

A great crowd gathers in a stadium in Alexandria. All eyes are on two tiers of thrones. On the upper level sit Antony and his wife Cleopatra, robed as the Egyptian goddess Isis. On four lower thrones are their own three...

Tiepolo first finds his characteristic style | HISTORY OF PAINTING

Venetian sunset

Tiepolo first finds his characteristic style in the frescoes which he paints in 1726-8 for the archbishop's palace in Udine. In Venice his greatest surviving series is that of Antony and Cleopatra in the Palazzo Labia. B...

Tiepolo first finds his characteristic style | HISTORY OF ITALIAN ART

Venetian sunset

Tiepolo first finds his characteristic style in the frescoes which he paints in 1726-8 for the archbishop's palace in Udine. In Venice his greatest surviving series is that of Antony and Cleopatra in the Palazzo Labia. B...

After the victory at Pharsalus, Caesar | HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR

Dictator

After the victory at Pharsalus, Caesar sends his trusted lieutenant Mark Antony back to Rome. Antony arranges for the senate to declare Caesar a dictator, with no fixed term.

Aft...

Nobody could claim that dynastic Egypt | HISTORY OF EGYPT

The Ptolemaic inheritance

Nobody could claim that dynastic Egypt fizzles out. It flares to a romantic end, while the last ruler in the line of the Ptolemies flirts with two representatives of the most efficient and expansionist empire of the anci...

By a coincidence of history the | HISTORY OF ROME

Augustus Caesar

By a coincidence of history the Roman empire, at its start, has recently achieved a new geographical completeness. The campaigns of Pompey have led to the annexation of Syria in 64 BC and the capture of Jerusalem in 63....

By a coincidence of history the | HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Augustus Caesar

By a coincidence of history the Roman empire, at its start, has recently achieved a new geographical completeness. The campaigns of Pompey have led to the annexation of Syria in 64 BC and the capture of Jerusalem in 63....

Signs of tension between Octavian and | HISTORY OF AUGUSTUS CAESAR

Caesaw's heir

Signs of tension between Octavian and Antony are eased in 40 BC when Antony returns briefly to Italy and marries Octavian's sister, Octavia. But family relations are not improved three years later when news comes that An...

Even the plays of this period | HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Tragedies and dark comedies

Even the plays of this period which are literally comedies, in the simple sense that they end happily, are in mood closer to tragedy. Examples are All's Well that Ends Well (1603) and Measure for Measure (1...

Even the plays of this period | HISTORY OF THEATRE

Tragedies and dark comedies

Even the plays of this period which are literally comedies, in the simple sense that they end happily, are in mood closer to tragedy. Examples are All's Well that Ends Well (1603) and Measure for Measure (1...

Even the plays of this period | HISTORY OF LITERATURE

Tragedies and dark comedies

Even the plays of this period which are literally comedies, in the simple sense that they end happily, are in mood closer to tragedy. Examples are All's Well that Ends Well (1603) and Measure for Measure (1...

Caesar is only three days behind | HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR

Caesar and Pompey

Caesar is only three days behind with his fleet. His arrival no doubt convinces the Egyptians that the murder of Pompey has been a wise precaution. While still at sea off Alexandria, Caesar is welcomed by envoys bearing...

Caesar is only three days behind | POMPEY

Caesar and Pompey

Caesar is only three days behind with his fleet. His arrival no doubt convinces the Egyptians that the murder of Pompey has been a wise precaution. While still at sea off Alexandria, Caesar is welcomed by envoys bearing...