“Give me to drink mandragora… That I might sleep out this great gap of time. My Antony is away.”
Cleopatra is a name which has evoked powerful images of sovreignity, femininity, beauty, and cunning throughout history. Cleopatra is perhaps one of the most famous queens of all time. She has been immortalized by Shakespeare, Horace, Plutarch, painters and sculptors, and various historians alike. Yet, despite her infamous reputation as a power-hungry seductress, Cleopatra was a proud and greatly ambitious ruler.
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“Taking just one of her courtiers, Apollodorus the Sicilian, she boarded a small boat and landed near the palace at dusk. Unable to think of any other way to enter unnoticed, she lay down full length in a bed-linen sack, and Apollodorus tied the sack up with a strap and carried it through the gates to Caesar. Caesar, it is said, was immediately taken with this trick of Cleopatra, and the coquettish impression it made…” Plutarch
“Her own beauty, so we are told, was not of that incomparable kind which instantly captivates the beholder. But the charm of her presence was irresistible, and there was an attraction in her person and in her talk, together with a peculiar force of character which pervaded her every word and action, and laid all who associated with her under her spell.” Plutarch, Life of Antony
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