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...Cleopatra's name is more evocative than any image of her," says Peter Higgs of the museum's department of Greek and Roman antiquities and co-curator of the exhibition. In what Higgs calls a "biographical study"-and one with which not all classical scholars may entirely concur-Cleopatra is presented in a range of guises that have contributed to the legend that she began building during her lifetime. "We know that not everyone is going to agree with us," says Higgs. "We're not saying we're right about everything. This is our interpretation...
...Like her Ptolemaic predecessors in the three centuries following Alexander the Great's ouster of the Persian administration in Egypt in 332 B.C., Cleopatra had to appeal to both Greeks and Egyptians-to be seen as both Greek monarch and Egyptian pharaoh. She also needed to present herself as a formidable figure amid the violence and chaos that characterized the Mediterranean region at the time. Indeed, before Cleopatra even ascended the Ptolemaic throne, she needed to have been ruthless, given the familial bloodbaths that long characterized her incestuous line...
...help of the asp of legend, if not a cobra-the new emperor ordered that all statues of Cleopatra be destroyed. Most of the surviving images depict a figure with a voluptuous body and a strong face, masculine in its features, emphasizing power. Representations from old coins, particularly rare Greek ones, have helped to identify Cleopatra in marble and limestone sculptures. So, too, did the tiniest item on display-a 1.3-cm blue glass intaglio bearing Cleopatra's profile in a more naturalistic Greek style...
...Images of Cleopatra's great loves and political allies, Caesar and Antony, are included in the exhibition, but perhaps more interesting than any sculpted head is a joke in stone dating from 34 B.C. Inscribed in Greek on a basalt statue base found at Alexandria is a reference to "Antony, the Great, lover without peer." The text, says Higgs, contains a pun relating to the "Association of Inimitable Livers," which Plu- tarch wrote was a group established by the high-living Antony and Cleopatra in cosmopolitan Alexandria. Antony the inimitable liver became Antony the inimitable lover, both in the brothels...
...THEN A Greek businessman associated with Athens' bid for the 1996 Olympics reportedly gave the (now ex-) wife of ioc member Phil Coles a gold necklace valued...