Cultural Depictions of Cleopatra VII - Literature

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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