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Title

Cleopatra reassessed / edited by Susan Walker, Sally-Ann Ashton.

Publication

London : British Museum : Distributors, British Museum Press, ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walker, Susan
• Ashton, Sally-Ann
• British Museum

Description

vi, 146 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Summary

"This volume presents the work of a lively international symposium accompanying the special exhibition Cleopatra of Egypt: from History to Myth, held at the British Museum in 2001. The book is divided in four sections: Cleopatra and Egypt; Cleopatra and the Hellenistic Greek Tradition: Cleopatra and Rome; Cleopatra Abroad. Nineteen contributors explore such issues as the presentation of Cleopatra in written and visual sources; her known deeds as queen of Egypt; perceptions of Cleopatra in antiquity and the Islamic world, and the unexpectedly far-reaching influence of the last queen of Egypt as an icon of female power."

Series Statement

British Museum occasional paper ; no. 103

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (British Museum) no. 103.

Subject

• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C
• Kleopatra VII. Ägypten, Königin v69-v30
• Kleopatra (Ägypten, Königin, VII.)
• 332-30 B.C
• Queens > Egypt > Biography
• Kings and rulers
• Queens
• Beeldende kunsten
• Egypt > History > 332-30 B.C
• Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C
• Egypt > Kings and rulers > Biography
• Égypte > Histoire > 332-30 av. J.-C
• Rome > Histoire > 265-30 av. J.-C. (République)
• Egypt
• Rome (Empire)
• History

Genre/Form

• Biography
• History
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146).

Language (note)

• In English; one article in French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Susan Walker and Sally-Ann Ashton -- Cleopatra by name / John Tait -- Cleopatra in the temples of upper Egypt : the evidence of Dendera and Armant / John Ray -- Images of Cleopatra VII reconsidered / Robert S. Bianchi -- Cleopatra : goddess, ruler of regent / Sally-Ann Ashton -- Cleopatra VII : the queen in Egypt / Dorothy J. Thompson -- A royal ordinance of Cleopatra and related documents / Peter van Minnen -- Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra / Gunter Grimm -- The virtuous scholar : queen Cleopatra in medieval Moslem/Arab writings / Okasha El Daly -- Resembling Cleopatra : Cleopatra VII's portraits in the context of late hellenistic female portraiture / Peter Higgs -- Cleopatra VII at the Louvre / Peter Higgs and Susan Walker -- Portraits of Cleopatra -- do they exit? an evaluation of the marble heads shown at the British Museum in the exhibition Cleopatra of Egypt : from history to myth / Flemming Johansen -- From empire's to empire / Susan Walker -- Imperial style and the coins of Cleopatra and Mark Antony / Jonathan Williams -- Queen, harlot or lecherous goddess? an Egyptological approach to a Roman image of propaganda / Marc Etienne.

ISBN

• 0861591038
• 9780861591039

LCCN

2007555827

OCLC

• 54975337
• SCSB-10391656

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library