List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra explained
Cleopatra has frequently been the subject of literature, films, plays, television programs, and art. Only those with Wikipedia articles are cited.
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Art
cover of Cleopatra (1962)
Cleopatra (1875)
Умирающая Клеопатра (1749)
Marco Antonio e Cleopatra (1542)[4]
Antony and Cleopatra (1982)
Cleopatra
Cleopatra[5]
Cléopâtre mourant (1700)
Cleopatra e Marco Antonio morente (1763)
Der tod der Kleopatra (1529)[6]
Kleopátra (1911)
Cléopâtre se suicide (c. 1697)
La mort de Cléopâtra (c. 1620)
Cléopâtre est présentée avec la tête et membres de son propre enfant (c. 1415)[7]
Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae (1896)
Cleopatra (1976)
Queen Cleopatra VII
Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condangés à mort (1887)
La morte di Cleopatra (1658)
De dood van Cleopatra (1590)
Antonio e Cleopatra[9]
Antoine et Cléopâtre (1911)
The Death of Cleopatra (1760)[10]
Cleopatra (c. 1925)
Cleopatra after Benvenuto Cellini[11]
Cléopâtre[12]
The Death of Cleopatra (1890)
Cleopatra (1710)
Caesar Placing Cleopatra Back on the Throne of Egypt ("Cesare rimette Cleopatra sul trono d'Egitto") (1637)
Cesare y Cleopatra (1972)
Cleopatra[15]
Cleopatra (1864) after Frederick Sandys[16]
Cleopatra (c. 1508)[17]
Het banket van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra (1669)
Cléopâtre et le paysan (1838)
La banquet de Cléopâtre (1680)
La mort de Cléopâtre[15]
Cleopatra (1990)
cover for the February 1927 Harper's Bazaar[18]
Cleopatra (1876)
Cleopatra (1485–1490)
La morte di Cleopatra
Cléopâtre (1789)
Cleopatra (1934)
Anthony and Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1907)[19]
Cleopatra (1585)
Anthony and Cleopatra (1982), modeled by Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon
La morte di Cleopatra (1650)
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
La morte di Cleopatra[15]
Cléopâtre et Octavian (1788)
Cleopatra (1663)
Cleopatra (1621–1622)
Cleopatra
Cléopâtre et César (1866)
Cleopatra (c. 1525)
La morte di Cleopatra (1878)
Cleopatra (c. 1700)
La Duchesse du Maine en Cléopâtre[21]
Cleopatra (1873)[22]
Il suicidio di Cleopatra (1621)
The Death of Cleopatra (1767)
Der tod der Kleopatra
Het Feest van Cleopatra[23]
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt[24]
Het Feest van Cleopatra (1653)
La mort de Cléopâtre
Il suicidio di Cleopatra (1632–1633)
Cleopatra o allegoria della Prudenza
The Death of Cleopatra (1876)
Der tod der Kleopatra (1622–1624)
Le débarquement de Cléopâtre à Tarse (1642–1643)
La muerte de Cleopatra (1881)
Cleopatra
Der tod der Kleopatra (1875)
Cleopatra e la perla (1650)
Cleopatra (c. 1565)[25]
La morte di Cleopatra (c. 1713)[26]
La morte di Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra (1973)
Augustus und Kleopatra (1761)
Cleopatra (1533–1534)
La mort de Cléopâtre (1670)
Cléopâtre (c. 1887)
De dood van Cleopatra (1673)
Cleopatra
Cleopatra[28]
Cleopatra (1990)
Cleopatra (1917)
La morte di Cleopatra
Antonius und Kleopatra in der Schlacht bei Actium (c. 1750)
The Death of Cleopatra[30]
La morte di Cleopatra (c. 1525)
La morte di Cleopatra (1520–1525)[31]
La mort de Cléopâtre (1796–1799)
Studie van een naakt vrouw als Cleopatra (c. 1637)
Cleopatra con l'aspide (1630)
La morte di Cleopatra (c. 1670)
La morte di Cleopatra
Il suicidio di Cleopatra (1552)
La mort de Cléopâtre[28]
La mort de Cléopâtre (1874)
La morte di Cleopatra lunette (1531–1532)[32]
Cleopatra
Cleopatra (1615)
Cléopâtre[33]
Cleopatra[35]
Cleopatra[36]
Cleopatra[37]
La morte di Cleopatra[38]
Cleopatra (1858), from Mary Cowden Clarke's World Noted Women
Cleopatra (1630)[15]
Cleopatra (1869)
Cléopâtre découvert par Rodogune d'avoir empoisonné la coupe nuptial (1791)
Queen Cleopatra[39]
Cleopatra[15]
Il banchetto di Marco Antonio (1702)
In the Palace in Alexandria (1795), published by the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery dramatizing Antony and Cleopatra[40]
La morte di Antonio e Cleopatra (1630–1635)
Death of Cleopatra VII
Het verhaal van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra (1677)[41]
De dood van Cleopatra (1694)
De stervende Cleopatra (c. 1523)[43]
Cleopatra[44]
Antonio e Cleopatra
Cléopâtre se donnant la mort (c. 1640)
"Les suicides d'Antoine et Cléopâtre" from Le Miroir Historial[45]
Cleopatra (1888)
Cleopatra
Astronomy
Ballet
Beauty and fashion
Celebrities
- Marilyn Monroe posed as Cleopatra based on Theda Bara's portrayal for the December 22, 1958 Life, shot by Richard Avedon
- Sandra Bernhard posed as Cleopatra for the August 1989 cover of Spy
- Kim Kardashian posed as Cleopatra based on Elizabeth Taylor's portrayal for the March 2011 Harper's Bazaar
Comics
Documentaries
- Ancients Behaving Badly: Cleopatra (2009)
- Cleopatra, Portrait of a Killer (2009) (Camelia Ben Sakour)
- Rome's Greatest Battles: Actium (2010) (Laëtitia Eïdo)
- Queen Cleopatra (2023) (Netflix)
Educational cultural depictions
- Journey Down The Nile: a film, lecture, and cultural dance program, by Layla Taj
Film
Games
- : The campaign in "Pax Romana: 1. Actium" has a history section that talks about Antony and Cleopatra falling in love, the navy battle in Egypt, and their downfall by suicide. The player must sink Cleopatra's barge in order to win the campaign.
- Anachronism Set 2 includes Cleopatra.
- Assassin's Creed II: In the backstory of the game, Cleopatra is included in a list of tyrannical rulers targeted by the assassins. She is killed by a female assassin named Amunet, who assassinates her using an asp to make the queen's death appear to be a suicide.
- Assassin's Creed Origins: Cleopatra plays a more active role in the story of this later entry to the franchise, first as an ally to the Hidden Ones, a predecessor to the Assassin Brotherhood, and later as an enemy along with Julius Caesar. Her killer Amunet, once known as Aya of Alexandria, also plays a major role as a leader of the Hidden Ones and ex-wife of the protagonist, Bayek of Siwa.
- BreakAway's and Impressions's Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile (2000)
- – Cleopatra appears as an end boss in the final level of the arcade game.
- Cleopatra and the Society of Architects
- Cleopatra Fortune
- Civilization II
- Civilization III
- Civilization VI
- Civilization Revolution
- Cleopatra is a playable character in the Mobile/PC Game Rise of Kingdoms.
- Dante's Inferno
- Fate/Grand Order: Cleopatra is an Assassin class servant. She is the antagonist of a Halloween event, where she wishes to reunite with Caesar and is dismayed to find that he has grown fat.
- Kheops Studio's Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny (2007)
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- Scribblenauts and its sequels
- Shadow of Rome: Iris and Charmian, twins who appear throughout the game who employ the character Sextus and his gladiators, are implied to be working for Cleopatra, even though it is never confirmed.
- International Game Technology has a series of Cleopatra slot machines.
Literature
- Dante Alighieri: Inferno (1321)
- Jacob Abbott: Cleopatra (1879)
- Giovanni Boccaccio: "Cleopatrae, Aegypti Reginae" (from De mulieribus claris)
- Gillian Bradshaw: Cleopatra's Heir
- Charlotte Brontë: Villette, Lucy is mortified at seeing a semi-nude painting of Cleopatra
- Pat Brown (criminal profiler): The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case (2013)[51]
- Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra (1935)
- Jeffrey K. Gardner: Cleopatra
- Georg Ebers: Kleopatra (1894)
- Karen Essex: Kleopatra (2001) and Pharaoh (2002)
- Colin Falconer: When We Were Gods (2000)
- Sarah Fielding: The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1758)
- Théophile Gautier: "Un Nuit de Cléopâtre" (1838)
- Margaret George: The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997)
- Delphine de Girardin: Cléopâtre (1847)
- Kristiana Gregory: The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C.
- Henry Gréville: Cléopâtre (1886)
- H. Rider Haggard: Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis
- E. E. Y. Hales: Chariot of Fire (1977 Fantasy novel) (sent to Hell after her death, Cleopatra plans a revolution against Satan)
- Margaret Carver Leighton: Cleopatra: Sister of the Moon (1969)
- Michael Livingston: The Shards of Heaven (2015)[52] [53]
- Emil Ludwig: Kleopatra: Geschichte einer Königin (1937)
- Colleen McCullough: Caesar: Let the Dice Fly, The October Horse, and Antony and Cleopatra
- Michelle Moran: Cleopatra's Daughter (2009)
- Talbot Mundy: Queen Cleopatra (1929)
- Ray Nelson: "Blake's Progress", an Alternate History - Cleopatra wins at Actium, leading to a future of a Greek-speaking, Isis-worshiping world civilization
- Plutarch: Life of Antony
- Francine Prose: (2022)
- François Rabelais: Cléopâtre dans l'Hadès (1553)
- Steven Saylor: The Judgment of Caesar
- Stacy Schiff: Cleopatra: A Life (2010)[54]
- John Maddox Roberts: The Princess and the Pirates
- Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March
Music
Opera
Plays
Poetry
Television
- African Queens (2023) (Adele James)
- Antonio e Cleopatra (1965) (Valeria Valeri)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1974) Royal Shakespeare Company (Janet Suzman)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1981) BBC Television Shakespeare (Jane Lapotaire)
- Antony and Cleopatra (1983) (Lynn Redgrave)
- Astro Boy (1980): "The Return of Queen Cleopatra" (Season 1, Episode 31)
- Bewitched (1969) "Samantha's Caesar Salad", Samantha conjures up Cleopatra (Elizabeth Thompson) to try to persuade Julius Caesar to return to his time.(S6.E3)[61]
- Cleopatra (Leonor Varela)
- Cleopatra (2010) (Sulaf Fawakherji)
- Cleopatra in Space (2019), an animated children's series
- The Cleopatras (Michelle Newell)
- Clone High: (Cleopatra "Cleo" Smith; voiced by Christa Miller and Mitra Jouhari)
- The Danny Thomas Show: "The Singing Sisters", as Kathy badgers Danny to audition a pair of singing nuns, he tells her "Okay, Cleopatra, get that snake away from me."
- Doctor Who:
- Fantasy Island: "My Fair Pharaoh", a woman (Joan Collins) wants to be Cleopatra
- General Electric Theater: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Piper Laurie)
- Giulio Cesare (1990) (Susan Larson)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Geneviève Bujold)
- Histeria! (voiced by Tress MacNeille)
- Horrible Histories (Martha Howe-Douglas/Kathryn Drysdale)
- (Anna Valle)
- Julius Caesar (Samuela Sardo)
- Legends of the Hidden Temple: "The Snake Bracelet of Cleopatra"
- Meeting of Minds: "Queen Cleopatra/Theodore Roosevelt/Thomas Aquinas/Thomas Paine" (Jayne Meadows)
- The Morecambe & Wise Show: "Season 5, Episode 5" (Glenda Jackson)
- Mujeres Insólitas: "La Sierpe del Nilo" (Rocío Dúrcal)
- Producers' Showcase: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Claire Bloom)
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Episode 11
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Banana Formula pt. 6 (TBA)
- The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show (Grey Griffin)
- Rome (2005–07) (Lyndsey Marshal)[62]
- The Spread of the Eagle (1963) (TV series) (Mary Morris)
- The New Addams Family: "Cleopatra, Green of the Nile" (Adam Behr and Nicholas Podbrey)
- The Supersizers...: "The Supersizers Eat...Ancient Rome" (Sue Perkins)
- Teen Angel: "Honest Abe and Popular Steve" (Sue Giosa)
- You Are There: "The Death of Cleopatra" (Kim Stanley)
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- "King of Assassins" (Gina Torres)
- "Antony & Cleopatra" (Jo Davidson/Lucy Lawless)
- Music video Horrible Histories Song – RA RA Cleopatra CBBC (about 2009)
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Notes and References
- April 22, 2010
- Web site: Summer's Eve Ad Campaign . Summer's Eve . 2013-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140513040846/http://www.summerseve.com/ad-campaign . 2014-05-13 . dead.
- May 12, 2014
- http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=58489&coll_keywords=cleopatra&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1 "Plate"
- http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=128534&coll_keywords=cleopatra&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=11 Cleopatra
- https://archive.today/20120707190450/http://collection.aggv.bc.ca/explore/3385 "Beham, The Death of Cleopatra" ARTBase
- http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=112355 Cleopatra Presented with the Head and Limbs of Her Own Child
- http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=112363 The Tomb of Marc Antony and Cleopatra
- http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~timmoore/BeaGreekweb/CleopatraCasali.jpg Antony and Cleopatra by Andrea Casali
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/c/chelsea_porcelain_cleopatra_va.aspx "Chelsea porcelain Cleopatra vase"
- https://books.google.com/books?id=cNeHef2pTNkC&dq=Cleopatra+%22Benvenuto+Cellini%22&pg=PA110 Benvenuto Cellini by Robert Henry Hobart Custby (p. 110)
- http://www.historia-del-arte-erotico.com/cleopatra/cleopatra/home.htm "Cleopatra" Historia del Arte Erotico.com (in Italian)
- Web site: Cleopatra of the Nile . grapefruitmoongallery.com . 20 January 2016 . Artist: Henry Clive Date: 1929 Medium: Oil on gesso panel illustration board Dimensions: Sight Size 23 1/2" X 29 1/2" framed 29" X 35" Condition: Excellent Original Use: Calendar art for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company.
- Web site: Pin-Up Girls of History – Cleopatra . grapefruitmoongallery.com . 23 July 2019 . Artist: Henry Clive Date: 1946 Medium: Oil on Illustration Board Dimensions: Framed 35" x 43" Sight Size: 20.5" x 28" Condition: Excellent Original Use: Cover for The American Weekly, October 13, 1946.
- http://www.historia-del-arte-erotico.com/cleopatra/cleopatra/home.htm "Cleopatra" (in Italian)
- http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=448426&coll_keywords=cleopatra&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1 "Illustration to Cleopatra a poem by Swinburne from Cornhill Magazine, 1864"
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/j/jacopo_de_barbari,_cleopatra,.aspx Jacopo de' Barbari, Cleopatra a Drawing and Print
- http://www.pinterest.com/pin/44543483786797595/ "Feb 1927 Erté" Pinterest
- http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2011/06/cleopatra.html Cleopatra Thom Buchanan
- http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1300 Basin with Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra
- http://media.education.gouv.fr/file/Programmes/53/1/Cleopatre_111531.pdf "Les reines de la Méditerranée-Cléopâtre" Ministère de l’Éducation nationale
- Web site: Cleopatra . 1873 . . March 5, 2015.
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerard_Hoet_(Dutch_-_The_Banquet_of_Cleopatra_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg The Banquet of Cleopatra commons.wikimedia.org
- http://www.howarddavidjohnson.com/legendary-women.htm "Legendary Women" HowardDavidJohnson.com
- http://theoppositeofamoth.blogspot.com/2009/11/five-women-and-four-serpents.html Five Women and Four Serpents theoppositeofamoth.blogspot.com
- http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/275561.html "The Death of Cleopatra by Mazzuoli"
- http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=16726 "The Banquet of Cleopatra" Smithsonian American Art Museum
- http://www.pyb.com.au/ptcds/pcres/focus/cleopatralucretia.htm "Two Tragic Destinies: Cleopatra and Lucretia" pyb.com.au
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Georg_Platzer_004.jpg "File:Johann Georg Platzer 004.jpg" commons.wikimedia.org
- http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/artist.aspx?artist=valentine-cameron-prinsep "Valentine Cameron Prinsep" artmagick.com
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcantonio_Raimondi_001.jpg "Marcantonio_Raimondi_001.jpg"
- http://www.artchive.com/web_gallery/G/Gerolamo-Romanino/The-Death-of-Cleopatra,-lunette,-1531-32.html "The Death of Cleopatra, lunette, 1531-1532" artchive.com
- http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/french-fontainebleau-school-cleopatra "Cleopatra, French Fontainebleau School"
- https://archive.today/20120903234857/http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/56463677/Hulton-Archive "Cleopatra, Hulton Archive"
- Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings, 1837.
- [:File:Sirani Cleopatra.JPG|"Sirani Cleopatra.JPG" ''Wikipedia'']
- http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/s/solari/andrea/index.html "Andrea Solari" Web Gallery of Art
- http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5279554 "Attributed to Leonello Spada, The Death of Cleopatra"
- http://penelope.uchicago.edu/oddnotes/cleoinencaustic/cleopatraencaustic.html "On the Antique Painting in Encaustic of Cleopatra, Discovered in 1818"
- http://mobysnewt.com/Item_Facius.html "Facius" Mobys Newt Ltd
- http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4812402 "A Flemish Historical Tapestry" Christies
- http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/search/citi/artist_id:5310 "Geraert Peemans"
- Web site: Nationaal Museum voor Kunst en Geschiedenis . rijksmuseum.nl . https://web.archive.org/web/20110608045026/http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=SK-A-2843&lang=nl . 2011-06-08 . dead.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=PyhJAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Alessandro+Varotari%22+Cleopatra&pg=PA268 The Art of the Vienna Galleries (p. 286)
- https://books.google.com/books?id=VPj9daGFkoYC&q=%22art+of+suicide%22 The Art of Suicide by Ron M. Brown, p. 53
- http://myballetsrusses.blogspot.com/2010/03/cleopatra-premieres-march-8-1908.html "Cleopatra Premiere's March 8, 1908" Ballets Russes blog
- Web site: Cleopatra, the new Ballet by Claude-Michel Schönberg & David Nixon. Northern Ballet. 5 June 2011.
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_3_74/ai_59870989/ "Cleopatra: A New Queen Reigns in Houston" Dance Magazine 3/2000 via findarticles.com
- Web site: Tales of Suspense (1959) #44 . Marvel.com . 2011-02-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110219060643/http://marvel.com/digital_comics/issue/3479/tales_of_suspense_1959_44 . 2011-02-19 . dead . 2023-10-26.
- Web site: The Bishop's Wife 1947 . OK.RU . 1947 . 2023-10-26.
- Book: Brown . Pat . The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case . 2013 . Prometheus Books . 9781616146504 . registration .
- Web site: The Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston . . January 29, 2016.
- Web site: Review: The Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston . . September 3, 2015 . January 29, 2016.
- Book: Schiff . Stacy . Cleopatra: A Life . 2010 . Little, Brown and Company . 978-0316120449.
- Web site: Cleopatra had a jazz band . NYPL Digital Collections . 2023-10-26.
- (November 18, 2019);
- https://books.google.com/books?id=uOsmAQAAIAAJ&dq=cleopatra+fiction&pg=PA240 Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
- http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cleopatra-8/ "Cleopatra" by Robert Crawford" poemhunter.com
- Pictorial Album; or, Cabinet of Paintings, 1837.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=7dFohviLlOkC&dq=%22Early+in+the+Morning%22+by+Louis+Simpson&pg=PA524 "Louis Simpson, Early in the Morning" The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry
- Web site: Samantha's Caesar Salad, Season 6, Episode 3. 1 January 2010. rottentomatoes.com. May 16, 2023.
- Book: Elizabeth A.. Ford. Deborah C.. Mitchell. Royal Portraits in Hollywood: Filming the Lives of Queens. 1 January 2010. University Press of Kentucky. 978-0-8131-3903-6.
- Web site: Watch Queen Cleopatra. netflix.com. February 12, 2024.
