Even in outline, the life of Cleopatra Selene, daughter of the more famous Cleopatra and the Roman general Marc Antony, seems drawn from a romance novel. Orphaned at age 11 by the suicides of her ...

A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear. By Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer When you purchase an independently ...

"Cleopatra: A Life" (Little, Brown, $29.99), by Stacy Schiff: It's as though Cleopatra lives and breathes once again in the pages of Stacy Schiff's exquisitely researched and well-written "Cleopatra: ...

History paints Cleopatra as a seductress. But there’s little we actually know about Egypt’s politically savvy last queen. One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be ...