Attempts to correct the myths surrounding Cleopatra's personal and public lives by discussing such issues as her relationship with Mark Antony and the efforts she and others made to romanticize her own life.
Michel Chauveau is a former member of the Institut Français d'Archæologie Orientale in Cairo, and is currently director of studies at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He is the author of Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and Society under the Ptolemies, also from Cornell. David Lorton, an Egyptologist, lives in Baltimore, Maryland.