Cleopatra

Name: Cleopatra
SKU: 2734552
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Last Queen of Egypt

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Joyce Tyldesley

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The Romans regarded her as 'fatale monstrum', a tyrant to be crushed. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare and Tiepolo (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. But who was Cleopatra, really? She 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.

Author Biography:

Joyce Tyldesley's books include acclaimed biographies of Rameses the Great and the Queens Hatchepsut and Nefertiti, and of Egypt: How a Lost Civilization was Rediscovered, which accompanied a major BBC television series. They have been published all over the world.

Release date NZ

January 8th, 2009

Author

Joyce Tyldesley

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

320

Dimensions

128x196x22

ISBN-13

9781861979018

Product ID

2734552

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