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Cleopatra (Paperback)
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Cleopatra (Paperback)
Series: Ancients in Action
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Total price: R996
Discovery Miles: 9 960
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Why are we still interested in Cleopatra? She has that eternally
attractive combination of sexual allure, political power - even
divine status - and personal wealth. She had by any standards an
eventful life and an unforgettable death. She very nearly tipped
the balance of power at a crucial moment in history: had she and
Antony succeeded in maintaining their empire in the east, our
cultural life might be very different today. In this concise,
readable, well-illustrated book, Susan Walker and Sally-Ann Ashton
look at the historical Cleopatra, at images of Cleopatra as a Greek
queen and as ruler of Egypt, at contemporary perceptions of her and
at how we see her today. We see how Roman propaganda depicted her
as a threatening woman with non-Roman qualities of excessive
behaviour and emotional manipulation, a view that has come down
through Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and forms the basis of
our understanding of her over two thousand years later.
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