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ID: 901000803
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000803
Record Type: Character/Person

Iras (literary character, servant of Cleopatra)

Note: Described as a fictional character, although noted in Plutarch, dramatized in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and other works. Servant of Cleopatra who accompanied her in death.

Display Date: ancient Egyptian

Names:
Iras (literary character, servant of Cleopatra) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Literary characters> (P)
........Iras (literary character, servant of Cleopatra) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... literary characters
.....(characters (people by activity), people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
related to .... Cleopatra (Egyptian monarch, -30 BCE)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
culture/religion is .... Ancient Egyptian (culture)
.....(Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Iras (literary character, servant of Cleopatra)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh2010014485
................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

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