Cléopâtre l'Égyptienne. Occident like Nicolas de Staël

like Nicolas de Staël

By multiplying the hands

la vie des pèlerins à al-'Ulâ

The College (part of the building of which still exists in Leuven) was inaugurated in September 1518

Cléopâtre l'Égyptienne. Occident like Nicolas de StaëlThe story of Cleopatra VII, Greek queen and female pharaoh, has been based primarily, since Antiquity, on literary sources that present her in a negative light, as an "Egyptian," which devalued her both as a "barbarian" and as a woman. This ideological discourse, which reproduced the propaganda of the victor, Octavian Augustus, must be compared with historical documents from Cleopatra's Egypt: papyri, inscriptions, archaeological and iconographic