Antony Quote by Robert Greene

“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent Roman general…

— Stacy Schiff

“[Cleopatra's] power has been made to derive from her sexuality, for obvious reason; as one of Caesar's murderers had noted, 'How much more attention…

— Stacy Schiff

“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly…

— Bettany Hughes

We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome.…

— Stacy Schiff

“As Lucy Hughes-Hallett (1990: 253) puts it, her reputation for beauty, though unsupported by any historical evidence, was unassailable, but it was not consonant…

— Richard Dyer

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we…

— Stacy Schiff

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a…

— Ally Carter

“In her palace at Alexandria, Cleopatra begins her final night. The last of the pharaohs, who was not as beautiful as they say, who…

— Eduardo Galeano

“It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet, unlike Alexander,…

— Sarah B. Pomeroy

Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy.

— Harriet Walter

Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing…

— Michael Korda

“Plutarch clearly notes that her beauty “was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no one could…

— Stacy Schiff