About Quote by Stacy Schiff

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

Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both…

— Robert Greene

The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and…

— Stacy Schiff

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

— Elizabeth Taylor

“…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

Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as…

— Evan Thomas

Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold,…

— Rick Riordan

“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

The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used…

— Manly Hall

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like…

— Ken Livingstone

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

— Carmen Boullosa

Ancient portraits are symbolic images without any immediate relation to the individuals represented; they are not portraits as we understand them. It is remarkable…

— George Sarton