Cle·o·pat·ra

(klē′ə-păt′rə, -pä′trə, -pā′-) 69-30 bc.

Egyptian queen (51-49 and 48-30) noted for her beauty and charisma. Octavian defeated the forces led by Cleopatra and Mark Antony at Actium (31).

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cleopatra

(ˌkliːəˈpætrə; -ˈpɑː-)

(Animals) a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange

Cleopatra

(ˌkliːəˈpætrə; -ˈpɑː-)

(Biography) ?69–30 bc, queen of Egypt (51–30), renowned for her beauty: the mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony. She killed herself with an asp to avoid capture by Octavian (Augustus)

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Cle•o•pa•tra

(ˌkli əˈpæ trə, -ˈpɑ-, -ˈpeɪ-)

n.

69–30 B.C., queen of Egypt 51–49, 48–30.

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Cleopatra - beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)

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Kleopátra

Клеопатра

Cleopatra

[ˌkliːəˈpætrə] N → Cleopatra

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Cleopatra

n → Kleopatra f

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Cleopatra

[ˌkliːəˈpætrə] n → Cleopatra

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Towards noon whales were raised; but so soon as the ship sailed down to them, they turned and fled with swift precipitancy; a disordered flight, as of Cleopatra's barges from Actium.

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A frugal mind cannot defend itself from considerable bitterness when reflecting that at the Battle of Actium (which was fought for no less a stake than the dominion of the world) the fleet of Octavianus Caesar and the fleet of Antonius, including the Egyptian division and Cleopatra's galley with purple sails, probably cost less than two modern battleships, or, as the modern naval book-jargon has it, two capital units.

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Quickness was ready at the call, and the two figures passed lightly along by the Meleager, towards the hall where the reclining Ariadne, then called the Cleopatra, lies in the marble voluptuousness of her beauty, the drapery folding around her with a petal-like ease and tenderness.

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The ruins of Caesar's Palace, Pompey's Pillar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Catacombs, and ruins of ancient Alexandria will be found worth the visit.

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Haggard's starkest image of thwarted yearning, disjunction and estrangement is the narrator's discovery, after descending into the "tomb", that the mummified corpse of Harmachis had been buried alive by his own votaries as punishment for betraying the "fervid zeal of patriotic faith" which Isis instils (Cleopatra 92).

Mary Butts, revisionary classicism and H. Rider Haggard's Cleopatra

The director of the Taiwanese version of Antony and Cleopatra, Wei-Jan Chi ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]), one of the winners of the Taiwan 17th National Award of Arts and Letters in 2013, reveals the relationship between the Roman conquerors and conquered Egypt by letting his characters meditate upon their positioning in the power struggle and the values of life.

The canon and Shakespeare's plays on the contemporary East Asian stage

Shakespeare's belief that women were tricksters is one of the antifeminist acts which occur in Antony and Cleopatra. He depicts Cleopatra as a woman who plays tricks on Antony and betrays him.

Antifeminism in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

of Athens) recounts a defeat of death in his re-reading of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's Cleopatra, first published in 1889.

The Defeat of Death: A Reading of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's Cleopatra

of Cleopatra and her attendants' life in Rome, once the victorious

Cleopatra's theatrical discourse in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

Young Cleopatra, the first of the two books, will be published in Spring 2015.

Orchard to publish two Cleopatra novels

The basic themes of power struggles, passion and obsession are retained as Mark Antony's love affair with the manipulative temptress Cleopatra inevitably leads to their downfall.

Power stuggles and passion in stripped down adaptation

The basic themes of power struggles, passion and obsession are not entirely lost as Mark Antony's love affair with the manipulative temptress Cleopatra inevitably leads to their downfall.

Power struggles and passion; REVIEW