Literature
- Cleopatra (1879) by Jacob Abbott
- "Cleopatrae, Aegypti Reginae" (from De mulieribus claris) by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Cleopatra's Heir by Gillian Bradshaw
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë (Lucy is mortified at seeing a semi-nude painting of Cleopatra)
- Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra (1935) by Mary Butts
- Kleopatra (1894) by Georg Ebers
- Kleopatra (2001) and Pharaoh (2002) by Karen Essex
- When We Were Gods (2000) by Colin Falconer
- The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1758) by Sarah Fielding
- Cleopatra by Jeffrey K. Gardner
- "Un Nuit de Cléopâtre" (1838) (short story) by Théophile Gautier
- The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
- Cléopâtre (1847) by Delphine de Girardin
- The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory
- Cléopâtre (1886) by Henry Gréville
- Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis by H. Rider Haggard
- Cleopatra: Sister of the Moon (1969) by Margaret Carver Leighton
- Kleopatra: Geschichte einer Königin (1937) by Emil Ludwig
- Caesar: Let the Dice Fly, The October Horse, and Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
- Cleopatra's Daughter (2009) by Michelle Moran
- Tros of Samothrace by Talbot Mundy
- Life of Antony by Plutarch
- Cléopâtre dans l'Hadès (1553) by François Rabelais
- The Judgment of Caesar by Steven Saylor
- The Princess and the Pirates by John Maddox Roberts
- The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder
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