I, Cleopatra — William Bostock

Listen as Cleopatra tells her story. From her childhood in the palace of the Pharoahs she divined that a unique destiny would be hers. She knew her heritage when she visited the crypt to gaze upon the miraculously preserved body of her ancestor, Alexander the Great. She grew up at the side of her father, King Ptolemy, struggled for power against her murderous, scheming brothers and sisters.

You are there amidst the pageantry of her coronation, at the religious rites where she is the Goddess Isis. Here are her great loves that shook empires: her conquest of Caesar, her romance with Antony.

This is Cleopatra, blonde and blue-eyed, holding court in splendor and dominating her era - an exotic and enigmatic queen, mixing politics with passion, mother to four children and to all her people - the quintessential woman of all time.