The Roman politician and general Mark Antony (ca. 83-30 BC) was the chief rival of Octavian for the succession to the power of Julius Caesar. Mark Antony (in Latin, Marcus Antonius) came from a distinguished Roman family. His grandfather had been one...

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WHEN SHAKESPEARE'S Cleopatra contemplates the grisly prospect of being led to Rome as Caesar's captive, one of her chief anxieties is that she'll be forced to watch the city's transvestite actors travestying her in skits: "I shall see/ Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness/...

So maybe Mark Antony loved Cleopatra for her mind. That is the conclusion being drawn by academics at Britain's University of Newcastle from a Roman denarius coin which depicts the celebrated queen of Egypt as a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin.In short, a...

I must say that I've never appreciated movie stars who treat theater as a form of charity work. They sacrifice too much for me."So why knock yourself out?" The Times asked Denzel Washington about his role as Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway. "It's obviously...