Cleopatra

by Michael Grant

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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.
  • ISBN10 0880297255
  • ISBN13 9780880297257
  • Publish Date 1 January 1972
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 August 1997
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Barnes & Noble Inc
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 311
  • Language English