At Actium in 31 BCE, Antony and Cleopatra still had ships, soldiers, treasure, and royal prestige. But Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa’s blockade turned their position in western Greece into a trap before ...

Her twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were made prisoners. But they still had a big role to play in Roman history.

We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous play through something of a non-entity. Enobarbus tells us that “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her ...

In 30 B.C., Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII died by suicide after they were defeated by Octavian's forces in a civil war. But what if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian, the man who became ...

"Antony and Cleopatra" is a lot like "Romeo and Juliet." The lovers are star-crossed. Their communities try to make them marry cold, undesirable others to score sociopolitical advantage. The woman ...

Absorbing and visually enthralling, Synetic’s production of Antony and Cleopatra returns after sixteen years, with new leads and gads of the same spine-tingling energy. One of several in their ...

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s doomed power couple 'Antony and Cleopatra,' who are far better at love than war, in Simon Godwin's production at the National. By Demetrios Matheou ...

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 ...

Mark Antony and Cleopatra are among the most famous pairs of lovers from the ancient world. Following their defeat at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., they took their final refuge from the victorious ...

One Thomas Merriam has a very intriguing article on “Parallel Ironies: Henry VIII (All Is True) and Antony and Cleopatra ” (available in full on his web site ). He argues that the clown’s words to ...

American opera companies are concentrating their efforts on new operas (often with a politically correct dimension) like never before. Whether this is good or bad will depend on one’s perspective, but ...