Summary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROM

Strauss, Barry S.

Summary: "The story of one of history's most decisive and yet little known battles, the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, which brought together Antony and Cleopatra on one side and Octavian, soon to be emperor Augustus, on the other, and whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937 STR

Graham, Jo

Summary: Set in Ancient Egypt, "Hand of Isis" is the story of Charmian, a handmaiden to Cleopatra and devotee of Isis, and her two sisters. It is a novel of lovers who transcend death, of gods who meddle in mortal affairs, and of women who guide empires.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Summary: Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quo 2008

Summary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROM

Summary: A live performance of the tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare. Set in Roman times, the play deals with Mark Antony's obsessive passion for Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, and how it leads to the tragic downfall of both.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ANT

Livingston, Michael

Summary: "Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIV

Shakespeare, William

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHA

Shakespeare, William

Summary: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spark Notes 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play Shakespeare

Shakespeare, William

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHA

Summary: The House of Batiatus has towered above the city of Capua for many years. Explore its deadly history before the arrival of Spartacus, and the death he carried with him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SPA

Summary: Mini-series about Octavius and Marc Anthony's struggle to control ancient Rome following Julius Caesar's assassination.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMP

Shakespeare, William

Summary: Presents Shakespeare's classic drama in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans to assassinate the leader on the Ides of March.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 1995

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHA

Angela, Alberto

Summary: "One of Italy's most revered cultural figures reconstructs the extraordinary life of the legendary Cleopatra at the height of her power in this epic story of passion, intrigue, betrayal, and war. Our world today would not be the same without Cleopatra. While she is one of the most famous figures in history, the legendary Egyptian queen remains, in many ways, an enigma. In this mesmerizing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA ANG

McCullough, Colleen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

Draycott, Jane (Jane Louise)

Summary: "The first biography of one of the most fascinating yet long-neglected rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. Years ago, archaeologists excavating near Pompeii unearthed a hoard of Roman treasures, among them a bowl depicting a woman with thick, curly hair and sporting an elephant-scalp headdress. For decades, theories circulated about her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLEOPATRA, QUEEN DRA

Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE THR

Holleman, Emily

Summary: Reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister. Reading-group guide available.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOL

Baker, G. P. (George Philip)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cooper Square Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAE

Summary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMP

Dray, Stephanie.

Summary: Pledging allegiance to Emperor Augustus, Selene faces uncertainty among the imperial politics and religious persecution of Rome and must decide between her loyalty to the emperor or to Egypt and her birthright.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

Summary: They employed a brutality which is staggering by today's standards. A fresh look at some of the world's most fascinating, iconic, and truly ruthless leaders, how they came to power and stayed in power, how they treated their subjects, friends and family, demonstrated battlefield leadership and achieved transformations at home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2009

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NonFic A

Dray, Stephanie.

Summary: The daughter of Cleopatra, Princess Selene, struggles to survive amidst political and romantic intrigue after her parents are vanquished by Rome and she becomes the object of desire and obsession for the new and ruthless Caesar.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRA

Summary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 300

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THR