Prudence J. Jones

Prudence Jones received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She has taught Classics at Bryn Mawr College, Rutgers University, and Montclair State University. The book resulting from her dissertation, Reading Rivers in Roman Literature and Culture, examines the ways rivers function in narrative. Cleopatra: a Sourcebook examines Cleopatra as she appears in primary sources from the ancient world as well as the reception of Cleopatra's image in later time periods. The sourcebook is used in numerous undergraduate courses on Cleopatra and women in the ancient world. Cleopatra (Haus Publishing 2006) is a short biography of Cleopatra. She is also the author of many shorter works, which can be found at https://montclair.academia.edu/PrudenceJones. She has contributed to reference works, including The Virgil Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell 2011), The Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press 2011), and The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford University Press 2009). She was featured as a Cleopatra expert in "Cleopatra: Portrait of a Killer" on Discovery Channel (2009).