When Edmonia Lewis presented her five-foot, two-ton marble sculpture The Death of Cleopatra at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the crowd that swarmed around it was the largest at the ...
Cleopatra's was an honorable death, a dignified death, an exemplary death. She had presided over it herself, proud and unbroken to the end. By the Roman definition she had at last done something right ...
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