Essays on Cleopatra
Cleopatra is endowed with having an abundance of beauty, allure and political intelligence – all qualities which identify heroes. Like ancient heroes such as Achilles, Cleopatra’s beauty was unparalleled by Egyptian standards, evidenced by Caesar who spoke of her “beauty, which enabled her even “to undo everyone both stony-hearted and elderly.” Interestingly, Plutarch provides an...
Two significant women who have fallen victim to the distortion of history are Cleopatra VII, the last true pharaoh of Egypt, and Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in the history of China. These women have been heavily documented through a distorted lens, as they successfully broke through patriarchal barriers that lingered over the Egyptian...
In just about everything you read, Cleopatra is characterised as the power-crazed, murderous harlot who preyed on seducing innocent men. To the Romans, she was an evil eastern sexual predator crushed my moral Rome, all the way to the Hollywood image of her as a highly sexualised villain. But, who really was Cleopatra? Cleopatra was...
Option 1 Cleopatra What can this image (including the written text) tell us about Cleopatra’s reputations? Throughout her life, and in the years following her death, Cleopatra gained various reputations based on the different elements of her character that were focused on. Quite often, her reputations differed based on the interpretation of the time period....
