329 A U T O R E F E R A T Y R O Z P R A W D O K T O R S K I C H STUDIA EUROPAEA GNESNENSIA 15/2017 ISSN 2082-5951 DOI 10.14746/seg.2016.15.21 Karolina Anna Kulpa (Poznań-Gniezno) TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE IMAGE OF CLEOPATRA VII, QUEEN OF EGYPT. BETWEEN HISTORICAL NARRATIVE AND POPULAR CULTURE * Cleopatra Philopator, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, ruled the kingdom on the Nile in the 1st century BC. Now, over two millennia later, she speaks to us from cinema and television screens, played by comely actresses. Libra- ries provide not only editions of antique sources, but also plays by William * Authorial synopsis of the doctoral dissertation, written at the Department of Culture and Tradition of Antiquity, Institute of European Culture in Gniezno, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The dissertation was supervised by Professor Leszek Mrozewicz (auxiliary supervisor: Dr. Magdalena Kamińska, Institute of Cultural Studies, AMU). The defence took place on May 8 th , 2017, before the Scientific Council of the Institute of Cultural Studies, AMU in Poznań.