Egipska popkrólowa. Przemiany wizerunku Kleopatry VII, królowej Egiptu, od narracji historycznej po kulturę popularną
The Egiptian Pop Queen. The Changes in Egyptian Queen Cleopatra’s Image from Historical Narration to Pop Culture

Author(s): Karolina Anna Kulpa
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Ancient World, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Cleopatra VII; female image; woman in pop culture; ruler of Egipt
Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the changes in perception of Cleopatra VII Philopator’s image in two- thousand-year reception. The author, discovering subsequent layers of the myth – from a historical figure to the Egyptian Pop Queen – shows that Cleopatra’s image in every historical period depended on current trends. Who was Cleopatra? Was she a godess, a devoted mother, a queen figthing for her state, a ruthless seductress, a monster, an ancien femme fatale, a beauty with the face of Elisabeth Taylor or a woman like many others?

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