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Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend

By Joann Fletcher

Book information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2011
ISBN
0060585587, 9780060585587
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (4773332 bytes)
Pages
464\0
Time added
2013-11-06 06:38:43

Description

“Joann Fletcher has the good grace and specialist knowledge to do away with Roman romances. This book’s bedrock is Egyptology. . . . Cleopatra was, indeed, not just a ‘baleful beauty;’ she was great.” —History Today World-renowned Egyptologist Joann Fletcher offers an extraordinary look at one of Egypt's most intriguing leaders—the legendary Cleopatra. In the tradition of biographies by Stacy Shiff, Duane Roller, and Adrian Goldsworthy, and drawing on astonishing new evidence about Cleopatra’s life—including tax records, personal correspondence, and the discovery of her palace quarters beneath the Mediterranean Sea—Fletcher presents Cleopatra’s life in glorious detail, revealing the woman behind the myths.

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