Prologue: From Carpet to Asp

1. Cleopatra Superstar

2. The Major Players

3. The Supporting Cast

4. The Professionals

5. Cleopatra Architecta

6. Alexandria on the Tiber

7. Living the Inimitable Life

8. Ersatz Alexanders in Egypt and Rome

9. "Queen of Kings": Cleopatra Thea Neotera

10. Even Death Won't Part Us Now

11. Egyptomania!

12. Divine Alter Egos

13. A Roman Pharaoh and a Roman Emperor

14. Rome on the Tiber

15. Death, Dynasty, and a Roman Dendera

16. Competing with Cleopatra on Coins

17. Princesses and Power Hair

18. Regina Romana

19. From Asp to Eternity

Photo by F.S. Kleiner

Diana E. E. Kleiner is Dunham Professor of the History of Art and Classics, Yale University.