Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media

Gregory N. Daugherty is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Randolph-Macon College, USA. He has twice received the Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching and was the winner of the APA Teaching Excellence Award in 2003 and the CAV Lurlene Todd Teacher of the Year in 2005. He served as President of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (1995-1996), CAMWS (2007-8) and the Classical Association of Virginia (2006-8).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. ‘A Lass Unparalleled’2. The Femme Fatale3. A Kinder, Gentler Cleopatra4. Cleopatra Modernized5. Lizpatra and its aftermath6. Eighties Ladies7. The Fantasy Queen of the 90s8. The 21st Century ‘Authentic’ Cleopatras9. The 21st Century Fantasy Cleopatras10. ‘Her Infinite Variety’Appendix: Chronology of CleopatraNotesBibliographyIndex

This book is a broad and well-researched introduction to the evergreen subject of Cleopatra's portrayal in the pop culture of the United States. Students and scholars of media studies and Classics will find this work especially useful.