books.google.com - Few other civilizations rival Ancient Egypt in its power to capture the modern imagination, and Cleopatra VII, monarch at the end of the Ptolemaic period, has always been preeminent among its cast of characters. Coming to power just before the unstable state was about to be absorbed into an autocratic...http://books.google.com/books/about/Egypt_in_the_age_of_Cleopatra.html?id=a5U-8b-fVNgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEgypt in the age of Cleopatra