Classics 24, Section 2
Cleopatras (1 unit, P/NP)
Professor Todd Hickey
Tuesday 1:00-2:00, 479 Bancroft Library, CCN: 14730

In this seminar we will explore representations of Cleopatra from Antiquity to the present day; our sources will include literature, art, movies, and advertising. The only prerequisite is an interest in this (in)famous queen and our extraordinarily persistent fascination with her.

Dr. Todd Hickey was educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Chicago. He has been The Bancroft Library's Assistant Research Papyrologist since 2001 and in 2004 joined the Department of Classics as an Assistant Professor. At the Bancroft Library, he curates the largest collection of papyri in the Americas (ca. 35,000 pieces). He is an editor of Greek and Egyptian texts on papyrus and researches the social, cultural, and economic history of Graeco-Roman Egypt. For more information, please see http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu.