Author: Sarah FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Fictitious autobiographies of Cleopatra and Octavia.
The Lives of Cleopatra & Octavia
Author: Sarah FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Fictitious autobiographies of Cleopatra and Octavia.
The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
Author: Sarah FieldingPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Set in the first century B.C., the Lives presents the stories of two famous women, each of whom played an important role in Roman history during the turbulent period of civil war immediately before the Golden Age of Augustus Caesar.
The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
Author: Sarah FieldingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia. By the Author of David Simple (S. Fielding). Second Edition Corrected
Author: Sarah FieldingLives of Cleopatra and Octavia
Author: Antony & Cleopatra
Author: William ShakespeareCleopatra
Author: Prudence J. JonesPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806137414
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This fascinating sourcebook documents what we know of Cleopatra and also shows how she has evolved through the lens of interpretation.
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: Colleen McCulloughPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476767653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
In this final novel in the Roman series, McCullough turns her attention to the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopatra.
The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
Author: Sarah FieldingPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019129258
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Cleopatra
Author: Stacy SchiffPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316121800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.