Cleopatra and Mark Antony: When Love Nearly Toppled Rome Mark Antony and Cleopatra were partners for 11 years and had three ...

One of Shakespeare’s greatest love stories, Antony & Cleopatra continues the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Rome season, picking up the story where Julius Caesar ends. Following Caesar’s ...

Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the ...

Today marks the birthday of the general and politician Mark Antony, who was born in 83 BC, and became integral to the transformation of his nation into the Roman Empire. His influence was huge, and ...

History’s most famous suicide happened more than 2,000 years ago: rather than surrender to the Romans who had captured her Egypt, the lovelorn Queen Cleopatra succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp.