Cleopatra and RomeHarvard University Press, 23 սեպ, 2005 թ. - 340 էջ With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nile; dressed as Venus for a tryst at Tarsus; unfurled from a roll of linens before Caesar; couchant, the deadly asp clasped to her breast. Through such images, each immortalizing the Egyptian queen's encounters with legendary Romans--Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian Augustus--we might also chart her rendezvous with the destiny of Rome. So Diana Kleiner shows us in this provocative book, which opens an entirely new perspective on one of the most intriguing women who ever lived. Cleopatra and Rome reveals how these iconic episodes, absorbed into a larger historical and political narrative, document a momentous cultural shift from the Hellenistic world to the Roman Empire. In this story, Cleopatra's death was not an end but a beginning--a starting point for a wide variety of appropriations by Augustus and his contemporaries that established a paradigm for cultural conversion. |
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From Carpet to Asp | 1 |
Cleopatra Superstar | 16 |
The Major Players | 29 |
The Supporting Cast | 45 |
The Professionals | 58 |
Cleopatra Architecta | 68 |
Alexandria on the Tiber | 93 |
Living the Inimitable Life | 102 |
A Roman Pharaoh and a Roman Emperor | 189 |
Rome on the Tiber | 200 |
Death Dynasty and a Roman Dendera | 219 |
Competing with Cleopatra on Coins | 230 |
Princesses and Power Hair | 242 |
Regina Romana | 251 |
From Asp to Eternity | 261 |
Notes | 285 |
Ersatz Alexanders in Egypt and Rome | 119 |
Queen of Kings Cleopatra Thea Neotera | 135 |
Even Death Wont Part Us Now | 157 |
Egyptomania | 163 |
Divine Alter Egos | 179 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Illustration Credits | 315 |
Acknowledgments | 321 |
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