Description: No writing, tears or odors. All photos depict the actual book listed; please examine them carefully. If you have any questions, please ask. Please visit my eBay store to find more great books! If you would like a discount for combined shipping costs for multiple items, PLEASE LET ME KNOW, and I'll be happy to take care of it! Thanks for looking! Your purchase supports small family business. https://www.ebay.com/str/neverenoughbooks65 Synopsis The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his prot g . Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Signed: No
Book Series: Historical
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Regional Cuisine: Not a Cookbook
Edition: First Edition
Personalize: No
Type: Biography
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Features: Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subjects: Biographies & True Stories
Book Title: Cleopatra : Alife
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Women, Royalty, Ancient / Egypt, Historical
Item Height: 1.2 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 23.4 Oz
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Stacy Schiff
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
