Cleopatra—a courageous, astute, and captivating girl who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into conflict, eradicated siblings to consolidate her energy, and held off the specter of Imperial Rome to guard her nation so long as she could—continues to fascinate centuries after she governed Egypt. those wide-ranging essays discover such issues as Cleopatra's debatable journey to Rome, her suicide via snake chunk, and the afterlife of her love potions. They view Cleopatra from the Egyptian standpoint, and consider the reception in Rome of Egyptian tradition, specially of its faith and structure. They talk about movies approximately her, and view what encouraged Egyptomania in early sleek paintings. jointly, those essays light up Cleopatra's legacy and illustrate the way it has been used and reused in the course of the centuries.
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21. Useful essays in G. W. , Rediscovering Hellenism: The Hellenic Inheritance and the English Imagination (1989); for new ideology in Greece, E. Bastéa, The Creation of Modern Athens, Planning the Myth (2000). 22. A recent study investigates these issues thoroughly: Donald Reid, Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (2002); for a more general discussion of cultural property and ethical issues, see Colin Renfrew, Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology (2000).
19. -M. , Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730–1930 (1994), to be read with a review by Brian A. Curran, Art Bulletin 78 (1996): 739–44; and by J. S. Curl, Egyptomania: The Egyptian Revival: A Recurring Theme in the History of Taste (1994). 20. C. -M. Humbert et al. (1994): 227–35; also illustrated is a Sèvres tea service taken by Napoleon to Saint Helena (240–241). The large numbers of dinner services and dining paraphernalia from many countries, monarchs, and groups on exhibit in Apsley House in London shows that this was to be a typical offering to the Duke, but only the service from Louis XVIII features Egyptian themes.
25. L. Troy, Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History (1986): 178–79; see also H. Gauthier, Le livre des rois d’Égypte (1916): 410–18. 36 Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt 26. P. Köln 81 lists all of Cleopatra III’s cult titles; see also G. Hölbl (2001): 285 for a list of eponymous Alexandrian priesthoods. 27. C. Traunecker, Coptos, Hommes et Dieux sur le Parvis de Geb (1992): 272–303 for a translation of the texts and discussion on the bark shrine. Traunecker suggests that the identity of the male ruler might be Ptolemy XIV.
