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Author: Ewa Kassala Publisher: ISBN: 9781947228177 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Ancient Egypt: A country of courtly intrigues, money, power, politics, magic, and above all, love. The time? The reign of the brilliant lady Pharaoh. The place? The richest city in the world, Alexandria. Questions about the love life of Queen Cleopatra have intrigued throughout the ages. How did she lose her virginity? What kind of education did she receive in the arts of love? Was she truly the greatest courtesan of ancient times? How did she manage to win the love of the greatest Roman leaders of their times, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony - and more importantly, how did she manage to keep it? This novel unfolds the secret history of one of the most famous women of Ancient Egypt. A woman who was strong, brilliant, and well-educated, raised from childhood to govern and maintain Egypt's independence, and bold enough to retreat from nothing. Learn how she used her knowledge, skills, and every advantage at her disposal to rise to the top in a world dominated by men.
Author: Ewa Kassala Publisher: ISBN: 9781947228177 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Ancient Egypt: A country of courtly intrigues, money, power, politics, magic, and above all, love. The time? The reign of the brilliant lady Pharaoh. The place? The richest city in the world, Alexandria. Questions about the love life of Queen Cleopatra have intrigued throughout the ages. How did she lose her virginity? What kind of education did she receive in the arts of love? Was she truly the greatest courtesan of ancient times? How did she manage to win the love of the greatest Roman leaders of their times, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony - and more importantly, how did she manage to keep it? This novel unfolds the secret history of one of the most famous women of Ancient Egypt. A woman who was strong, brilliant, and well-educated, raised from childhood to govern and maintain Egypt's independence, and bold enough to retreat from nothing. Learn how she used her knowledge, skills, and every advantage at her disposal to rise to the top in a world dominated by men.
Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307762637 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 418
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ramses the Great returns in this “darkly magical” (USA Today) novel from bestselling author Anne Rice “The reader is held captive and, ultimately, seduced.”—San Francisco Chronicle Ramses the Great lives! But having drunk the elixer of live, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied—for food, for wine, for women. Reawakened in opulent Edwardian London, he becomes Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He also becomes the close companion of voluptuous, adventurous Julie Stratford, heiress to a vast shipping fortune and the center of a group of jaded aristocrats with appetites of their own to appease. But the pleasures Ramses enjoys with Julie cannot soothe him. Searing memories of his last reawakening, at the behest of Cleopatra, his beloved Queen of Egypt, burn in his immortal soul. And though he is immortal, he is still all too human. His intense longings for his great love, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger. . . .
Author: Anne Rice Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 1101970480 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 417
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From the iconic, bestselling author of The Vampire Chronicles—Ramses the Great, former pharaoh of Egypt, is reawakened by the elixir of life in Edwardian England. Now immortal with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce and deadly battle of wills and psyches against the once-great Queen Cleopatra. In this mesmerizing, glamorous tale of ancient feuds and modern passions, Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life. She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality—and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.
Author: Nicole Horejsi Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442667400 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 291
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Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture. Novel Cleopatras also rewrites the essential role of women writers in history who were typically underestimated as active participants of neoclassical culture, often excluded from the same schools that taught their brothers Greek and Latin. However, as author Nicole Horejsi reveals, a number of exceptional middle-class women were actually serious students of the classics. In order to dismiss the idea that women were completely marginalized as neoclassical writers, Horejsi takes up the character of Dido from ancient Greek mythology and her real-life counterpart Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Together, the legendary Dido and historical Cleopatra serve as figures for the conflation of myth and history. Horejsi contends that turning to the doomed queens who haunted the Roman imagination enabled eighteenth-century novelists to seize the productive overlap among the categories of history, romance, the novel, and even the epic.
Author: Stacy Schiff Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316121800 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 484
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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 protégé. 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.
Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545389372 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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Selene has grown up in a palace on the Nile with her parents, Cleopatra & Mark Antony--the most brilliant, powerful rulers on earth. But the jealous Roman Emperor Octavianus wants Egypt for himself, & when war finally comes, Selene faces the loss of all she's ever loved. Forced to build a new life in Octavianus's household in Rome, she finds herself torn between two young men and two possible destinies--until she reaches out to claim her own.This stunning novel brings to life the personalities & passions of one of the greatest dramas in history, & offers a wonderful new heroine in Selene.
Author: Richard Strier Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226777537 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 318
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Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major texts did question the most traditional values and uncovers a Renaissance far more bumptious and affirmative than much recent scholarship has allowed.The Unrepentant Renaissance counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, aiming to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with surprising, worldly, and self-assertive energies. Reviving the perspective of Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, Strier provides fresh and uninhibited readings of texts by Petrarch, More, Shakespeare, Ignatius Loyola, Montaigne, Descartes, and Milton. Strier’s lively argument will stir debate throughout the field of Renaissance studies.
Author: Ewa Kassala
Author: Ewa Kassala
Author: Anne Rice
Author: Anne Rice
Author: Colleen McCullough
Author: Nicole Horejsi
Author: Stacy Schiff
Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter
Author: Richard Strier
Author: Derick Rupert Clement Marsh
Author: Janet Adelman