As the official story of Cleopatra's death goes, the Egyptian queen locked herself in a mausoleum in Alexandria on an August day in 30 B.C.E. and sent for a venomous snake. After she received an asp, ...

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

The Shakespeare classic “Antony & Cleopatra” will be coming to Rock Island for two weekends. Performances will start at 7:00p ...

I do a lot of public speaking for business leaders about how using the science of happiness can improve their organization ...

Signs of the times must ­never be taken lightly. Generally speaking, the idiom refers to the second coming, the end time. It ...

The new season of TCM's 'The Plot Thickens' explores the production history of the notorious epic through the lens of ...

The latest version of the Roman Empire dawned at Fenway Park in Boston on Monday. Roman Anthony — son of Anthony Anthony and brother of Anthony Anthony Jr. — botched his Red Sox debut by whiffing on a ...

We’ve combed through Cupid’s handiwork and selected some romantic pairings powerful enough to influence culture, trigger wars, and spawn international scandals.Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra ...

This post was updated Nov. 5 at 7:26 p.m. UCLA’s Shakespeare Company – also known as Bruinbard – is stabbing at political violence and its consequences with a rendition of “Julius Caesar ...

Julius Caesar, an accomplished military general and cunning politician, is perhaps remembered as one of the most consequential figures who rose to power during the Roman Republic – and led to ...

Although Julius Caesar is in previews as of this past Wednesday, Sept. 11, Shakespeare Dallas opens the show officially today (Friday, Sept. 13). With the play’s inherent and brutal drama ...

Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt, remains one of the most notorious women of the ancient world. Her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were a source of particular scandal, not least in ...