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Cleopatra : A Life by Stacy Schiff (2010, Compact Disc, Unabridged edition)
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- Condition
- Features
- Unabridged
- ISBN
- 9781607887010
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Cleopatra : Alife
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Women, General, Ancient / Egypt, WORLD, Historical
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-10
1607887010
ISBN-13
9781607887010
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84610658
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cleopatra : Alife
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Women, General, Ancient / Egypt, WORLD, Historical
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Dimensions
Item Length
5.8in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
12 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
This is a book to savor. Schiff has given a genuine jolt to the recent surge of interest in Franklin, along the way demonstrating why she is generally regarded as one of the most gifted storytellers writing today., Superb, spirited, enthralling. For anyone who enjoys a fascinating life-story well told, this is a book not to be missed., Schiff's sentences are magnificent, deceptively complex, full of insight and fact and distance and wry humor, so that every page is a kind of mini feast.
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
932/.021092 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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