Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Being Cleopatra: Gina Torres
Gina Torres as Cleopatra in the hit television show Xena: Warrior Princess in the 1997 episode ‘The King of Assassins’
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Time Magazine names Cleopatra one of the Top 25 Political Icons
Time Magazine names Cleopatra one of the Top 25 Political Icons alongside other world leaders whose legacies have stood the test of time.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Cleopatra Through the Artist's Eye: Maha Al Sahaf & George Bernard Shaw
Cleonified
Maha Al Sahaf
2008
"I have wandered in many lands, seeking the lost regions from which my birth into this world exiled me, and the company of creatures such as I myself. I have found flocks and pastures, men and cities, but no other Caesar, no air native to me, no man kindred to me, none who can do my day's deed, and think my night's thought."
George Bernard Shaw
Caesar and Cleopatra
Act I
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Being Cleopatra: Katharine Cornell
Katharine Cornell being Cleopatra in 'Antony and Cleopatra' by Shakespeare on Broadway in New York City, 1947
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
"If the museum is safe, Egypt is safe"
Egyptian special forces in the National Museum in Cairo.
"There has been some attempted vandalism, and, frankly, it makes no sense," said Bill Petty, who, with his wife, Linda, leads American tour groups to Egypt's great archeological sites. "They didn't go for any gold, they broke some statues. It's mindless."
"It's not the people with a political agenda who are doing the damage, it's criminals," he said. "The army has done a great job of protecting the major things, but there aren't enough of them."
"If the museum is safe, Egypt is safe," Zahi Hawass said to an Associated Press reporter following him.
The country depends heavily on the tourists who crowd here in calmer times, marveling at the mummies and their tombs.
Hawass said about 50 looters had broken into the National Museum on Friday and damaged two mummies -- but he assured reporters that little of historical value was damaged.
Robert Brier, an Egyptologist at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University and a contributing editor to Archeology magazine, was hearing differently. "Almost all the things they went after were gilded," he said. "Perhaps they thought they were gold, and smashed them." He said the artifacts were not, in fact, made of gold, just painted to look that way. The mummy of Tuya, the great-grandmother of King Tutankhamen, appeared in one news photo with its breast plate removed.
"I'm not worried about the pyramids," Brier said. "But the network of treasures there is so vast.""The bad news is that there is antiquities damage at the Giza Pyramids," reported archeologist Gerry Scott, director of the American Research Center in Egypt, on a blog called Unreported Heritage News. Giza is the site of the Great Sphinx, as well as Egypt's grandest pyramids.
He added that the Egyptian army was now guarding the pyramids and access has been restricted.
Nancy Al Hakegh, who has been a tour guide in Egypt for 25 years. "I know tourism is going to stop for some time. God only knows how long."Whenever anything happens to a country, tourism is the first thing to be affected," she said in an interview with ABC News. "But we don't know how much it'll be affected because we don't know what is going to happen. If everything calms down soon, the tourism industry will not be back and running normally until Christmas."
One archeologist who asked not to be named said he hoped the army and the Egyptian police would protect the antiquities."These aren't just Egypt's," he said. "These are the world's heritage, and they're important."
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Look Who was Channeling Cleopatra at the SAG Awards
Hillary Swank in Versace
Lea Michele in Oscar de la Renta
Monday, January 31, 2011
Cleopatra Through the Artist's Eye: Gustave Moreau & William Shakespeare
Cleopatra
Gustave Moreau
France
1887
"Give me to drink mandragora...
That I might sleep this out this great gap of time
My Antony is away."
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
Act I, scene v
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Being Cleopatra: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings one of Cleopatra's aria Tu la mia stella sei from Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Cleopatra's Beauty Secrets: Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy, and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
About the BookPaintings of people wearing incense cones on their wigs, sniffing flowers, and anointing just about anything; palettes for preparing cosmetics; and quantities of both romantic and religious literature all show the major role played by scent in Egyptian culture. Perfume was so important a part of ancient Egyptian life that it is remarkable that there are no other monographs on the subject. Noted author Manniche (Egyptology, Univ. of Copenhagen) studies the role of perfume and scent in Egyptian society as medicine, aphrodisiac, incense, and cosmetic. For the adventurous, Manniche even includes recipes from a variety of classical sources as well as Egyptian manuscripts. Recommended for large collections on the history of perfumes, aromatherapy, and folk medicine as well as general collections seeking scholarly but readable material on ancient Egyptian lifestyles.
Buy Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy, and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
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You think you know Cleopatra, but you have no idea: #2
#2 Cleopatra was the only person in the entire Ptolemaic dynasty who could actually speak Egyptian. In fact, she was fluent in 9 languages.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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