Cleopatra /
| Author / Creator: | Grant, Michael, 1914-2004 author |
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| Imprint: | London : Phoenix Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xviii, 301 pages, [24] pages of plates illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4708318 |
| Summary: | The distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant confirms that her reputation as a temptress was well-founded. However, by unravelling the sources behind the tangle of myth, gossip and invention he shows that the popular image of a wayward woman opting for a life of sensuous luxury and neglecting her affairs of state is far from the truth. A brilliant linguist and the first of her Greek-speaking dynasty who learned Egyptian, she was reputed to be the author of treatises on agriculture, make-up and alchemy. Her love affairs were carefully calculated to further her plans to restore her empire to its former greatness and she was a ruthless foe to all who stood in her way. But dead on her golden couch in the palace at Alexandria her life seemed to have ended in failure; her dreams of empire shattered; her lover Mark Antony a suicide himself and she a prisoner of her conqueror Octavian. An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary queen and her stormy life. |
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| Item Description: | First published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 301 pages, [24] pages of plates illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 184212031X |