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Cleopatra / Ernle Bradford.
LIBRA Special DT92.7 .B7 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.
- Egypt--History--332-30 B.C.
- Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.
- Rome (Empire).
- History.
- Queens--Egypt--Biography.
- Queens.
- Egypt.
- Egypt--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Local Subjects:
- Egypt--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- Cleopatra was an intellectual, an astute politician, and a powerful Queen of Egypt, but most people remember her primarily as a seductress. In this illuminating biography, Ernle Bradford suggests that Cleopatra's prurient reputation was likely manufactured by the conquering Romans to discredit her name after her death. Cleopatra's whole life was devoted to Egypt. Even though she was probably Greek, not Egyptian, by birth, she was the first of her dynasty to learn the language of the country over which she ruled. Only seventeen years old when she came to the throne in 51 B. C., she watched the savage struggle then raging between Caesar and Pompey and hoped that Rome would destroy itself in the process. Bradford's detailed exploration of the powers of this legendary queen is captivating and illuminating.
- Contents:
- Queen Of Egypt 11
- The Early Ptolemies 18
- Decline Of A Dynasty 26
- The City 44
- Battle For The World 53
- Caesar In Egypt 63
- Caesar And Cleopatra 71
- Cleopatra, Caesarion And Caesar 81
- Emperor Of Rome 95
- The Ides Of March 105
- Aftermath 116
- Antony 129
- New Dionysus 139
- An Alexandrian Winter 152
- The Years Between 159
- An Uneasy Alliance 169
- East And West 179
- Queen Takes Queen 186
- Empire Of The East 194
- Ships And The Men 202
- 'The King With Half The East At Heel ...' 209
- The Road To Actium 217
- Battle For The World 221
- The Last Year 238
- The God Deserts Antony 250
- Death And The Victor 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 014139014X
- 9780141390147
- OCLC:
- 43971553
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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