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Ancient Sources

Plutarch | Suetonius | Other sources

Plutarch

Life of Antony from Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius.

Plutarch, Life of Caesar from Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius.

Sources and discussion of the meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, including the Antony and Cleopatra banquet scene from the Athenaeus' Gastronomers (my favorite, if not commonly used name for the The Deipnosophists), from James Grout's Incidental notes on Cleopatra VII, part of the Encyclopaedia Romana.

A portrait of Cleopatra (Plutarch, Life of Mark Antony 25.5-28.1) from Women's Life in Greece and Rome, an online sourcebook by Lefkowitz and Fant.

Chaironeia: Plutarch's Home on the Web by Kenneth Mayer.

Suetonius

Suetonius, Life of the Deified Augustus the Thomson/Worthington 1883 translation, from Paul Halsall's Ancient History Sourcebook. The text is widely available. See also here and

Discussion of Antony's letter (the one where he asks "Does it matter where and in whom I get it up?") from James Grout's Incidental notes on Cleopatra VII, part of the Encyclopaedia Romana.

Other sources

List of sources bearing on Cleopatra and another list of secondary sources from

Appian's Roman History, Horace White (Loeb) translation from Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius. Books 2-5 bear on Cleopatra.

Do Cassius' Roman History from Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius, with book summaries. Books 43–51 touch inter alia on Cleopatra.

Velleius Paterculus, Roman History from Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius. Book 2.82ff. on Cleopatra.

Lucan's Pharsalia, book 10 ("Caesar in Egypt"), trans. Jane Joyce.

Florus, Eptome of Roman History is not yet online. I scanned it recently, so stay tuned. You can, however, get Florus in Latin from Forum Romanum. Also here.

LibraryThing: Catalog your books online.

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