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Cleopatra - A Life (Paperback)
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Cleopatra - A Life (Paperback)
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most
intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last
queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold,
but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all
else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious
negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it
reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice,
each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the
first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately
she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and
assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have
had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been
Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of
the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child
with Caesar and -- after his murder -- three more with his protege.
Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the
relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most
influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to
forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends.
Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous
long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history
for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her
mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to
her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the
drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to
the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from
fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new
world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a
luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
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