I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know... →
Richard Schiff
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of... →
Stacy Schiff
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages... →
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again... →
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking... →
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich Schiller
Great souls suffer in silence.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.