The figure of Cleopatra is shrouded in myths. She went down in history as a licentious seductress, a companion of two prominent Romans — Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. But the history of this Egyptian woman was written by men. What can a woman say about her? Stacey Schiff tried to look at the life of the Egyptian queen in a new way, to show her separately from the men and to determine whether the historians of the past were wrong.