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Mary Beard: No Asp for Zenobia, 20 March 2003
Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth
by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton.
Cornell, 104 pp., £14.95, April 2002,0 8014 3867 5 Show More
by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton.
Cornell, 104 pp., £14.95, April 2002,
The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations
by Maria Wyke.
Oxford, 452 pp., £40, March 2002,9780198150756 Show More
by Maria Wyke.
Oxford, 452 pp., £40, March 2002,
“... of conquest. Anyone who could not appear in person could always be conjured in paint or plaster, wood or wax. Julius Caesar, in his triumph of 46 BC, had treated the gawping crowds to a series of pictures of the last moments of his rivals in civil war: Cato disembowelling himself ‘like a wild beast’, Scipio throwing himself into the sea, Petreius ... ”