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Cleopatra : a life
- Author
- Schiff, Stacy.
- Title
- Cleopatra : a life / Stacy Schiff.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
- Published
- New York : Back Bay Books, 2011, c2010.
- Description
- 394, 13 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- Notes
- Originally published in hardcover by Little Brown & Co., November 2010. This paperback edition includes a reading group guide written by the author September 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-375) and index.
- Contents
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- That Egyptian woman
- Dead men don't bite
- Cleopatra captures the old man by magic
- The golden age never was the present age
- Man is by nature a political creature
- We must often shift the sails when we wish to arrive in port
- An object of gossip for the whole world
- Illicit affairs and bastard children
- The wickedest woman in history.
- Summary
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life one of the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
- Subject headings
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. Queens--Egypt--Biography. Egypt--Kings and rulers--Biography. Egypt--History--332-30 B.C.
- ISBN
- 0316001945 (pbk.) 9780316001946 (pbk.)