Cleopatra (centre) is played by a black actress, Adele James, in the new Netflix docudrama series.
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The ethnicity outcry says more about today’s preoccupations with race than ancient Egypt’s.
Donald Trump’s helicopter landing at the White House, Oct. 5, as he returns from being hospitalized at Walter Reed.
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A classics scholar and poet turns to Greek mythology, especially the story of Oedipus the King, to explain the drama – or perhaps tragedy – that is taking place in the highest office in the land.
Marc Antony, left, offers Julius Caesar a crown; Caesar refuses.
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With much public discussion of President Donald Trump as, potentially, a king, a scholar of Roman history and rhetoric sees 2,000-year-old parallels.
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Was a forged document responsible for the defeat of Mark Antony and the rise of Rome’s first emperor?