The Cleopatras

The Cleopatras (1983)

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Overview

Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.

Series Cast

Michelle Newell

Cleopatra

8 Episodes
Graham Crowden

Theodotus

8 Episodes
Richard Griffiths

Pot Belly

8 Episodes
Elizabeth Shepherd

Cleopatra, the mother

8 Episodes
Robert Hardy

Julius Caesar

8 Episodes
Christopher Neame

Mark Antony

8 Episodes
David Horovitch

Chickpea

8 Episodes
Amanda Boxer

Cleopatra Tryphaena

8 Episodes
Antony Carrick

Canidius

8 Episodes
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Last Season

Miniseries

1983 • 8 Episodes

Season 1 of The Cleopatras premiered on January 19, 1983.

51 BC

(1x6, February 23, 1983)

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Written by Philip Mackie, who also penned "The Caesars" (1968), I recall the furore at the time here in the UK when the BBC started showing "The Cleopatras". This eight-parter was accused of being a seedy, tawdry - and just about everything else pejorative - depiction of the Ptolomeic court in Alexandria that saw a multitude of women called Cleopatra rule Egypt. What those criticisms failed to acknowledge is that this is pretty much exactly how these depraved, incestuous individuals did behave. Mothers married sons, fathers their daughters - indeed it would have been quite possible for your mum... read the rest.

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