Cleopatra
historical figure · 7 works · 8 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Cleopatra's · fair Cleopatra · the queen of Egypt
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Egyptian queen whose love for Mark Antony is paired with wine as a cause of his ruin.
Mark Antony, a great man and of noble talent, what else ruined him and carried him over into foreign manners and un-Roman vices than drunkenness and his love of Cleopatra, no less than wine?
Chelidon, one of Cleopatra's minions, possessed a great estate.
Stromata
Cleopatra, final ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, whose twenty-two-year reign closes the Macedonian regnal list.
After all these Cleopatra reigned twenty-two years, after whom the kingdom of Cleopatra's children of eighteen days.
Iliad
Wife of Meleager, daughter of Marpessa and Idas.
He was incensed with his mother Althaia, and therefore stayed at home with his wedded wife fair Cleopatra, who was daughter of Marpessa daughter of Euenos, and of Ides the man then living.
Against Leocrates
A figure from Epirus from whom Leocrates bought corn for his illegal trading venture.
Living at Megara and using as capital the money which he had withdrawn from Athens he shipped corn, bought from Cleopatra, from Epirus to Leucas and from there to Corinth.
Ad Martyras
Egyptian queen cited for her death by asps rather than face capture.
A woman willingly sought out the beasts—and indeed asps more dreadful than any serpent, more dreadful than bull or bear—which Cleopatra let loose upon herself, that she might not fall into the hands of her enemy.
Ad Nationes
Egyptian queen who died by self-administered venomous beasts.
that we refuse with our minds neither your swords nor crosses nor beasts, not fire, not tortures, on account of our hardness and contempt of death.
Adversus Judaeos
Queen counted with her regnal years, alone and jointly with Augustus, in the chronological reckoning.
Likewise Cleopatra further reigned together with Augustus thirteen years.