Cleopatra: Last Queen of EgyptShe was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever (her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were as much to do with politics as the heart), she steered her kingdom through impossibly taxing internal problems and railed against greedy Roman imperialism. Stripping away preconceptions as old as her Roman enemies, Joyce Tyldesley uses all her skills as an Egyptologist to give us this magnificent biography. |
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User Review - la2bkk - LibraryThingThis is a well researched and balanced biography of Cleopatra. The author has many written many works on ancient Egypt and clearly is an authority. The book's background of Ptolemaic Egypt gives the ... Read full review
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User Review - Elysianfield - LibraryThingI kinda liked it and she has done good resource. But she got little too far from the main point too often. I wish it would have been more of just Cleopatra. Read full review
Contents
CHAPTER ONE Princess of Egypt | 10 |
CHAPTER TWO Queen of Egypt | 41 |
CHAPTER THREE AlexandrianexttoEgypt | 70 |
CHAPTER FOUR Cleopatra and Julius Caesar | 94 |
CHAPTER FIVE The New Isis | 109 |
CHAPTER SIX Cleopatra and Mark Antony | 140 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Death of a Dream | 171 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Cleopatras Children | 197 |
CHAPTER NINE History Becomes Legend | 205 |
Who Was Who? | 218 |
Chronology | 239 |
Bibliography | 260 |
List of Illustrations | 266 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt |
| Author | Joyce Tyldesley |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Profile Books, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1847650449, 9781847650443 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / General Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / Africa / General History / Ancient / General |
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