Cleopatra’s Make-over
Cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett considers how perceptions of Cleopatra have moved in the last decade and a half.
My book on Cleopatra was first published in 1990. Since then she has undergone at least two more metamorphoses. Both of them have been imposed on her, not by any new information about the events of her lifetime, but by what has been happening in the world in the past two decades.
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