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Who was Cleopatra? The erotic queen of Egypt? “The wanton seductress” who consorted with the two most powerful Romans of her time—Julius Caesar and Mark Antony? The “insatiable, treacherous, blood-thirsty, power-crazed” destroyer of men, a woman who “hailed from the intoxicating land of sex and excess”—“the occult, alchemical East?” From the writings of Cicero, Augustus Caesar, and Plutarch—all Romans—to Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra to the 1963 movie Cleopatra, we have been the captives of a powerful legend that distorts the life of one of the most intelligent, capable, and highly educated rulers in history.
And, now, with the publication of Stacy Schiff’s biography, Cleopatra: A Life, we have an opportunity to reappraise our understanding of this most unusual woman, who has fascinated millions of people for over two thousand years. Schiff lays out her strategy in the first chapter: To strip away the narrative myth and restore Cleopatra’s rightful
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Bingham, Sandra - The Praetorian Guard - A History of Rome's Elite Special Forces
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Bingham is a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her
publications include articles on aspects of the pra
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