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Cleopatra: A Life By Stacy Schiff. 9780316001946
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- Title
- Cleopatra: A Life
- ISBN
- 9780316001946
- Book Title
- Cleopatra : Alife
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback, Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Women, Royalty, Ancient / Egypt, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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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
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316001945
ISBN-13
9780316001946
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109031024
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cleopatra : Alife
Format
Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Royalty, Ancient / Egypt, Historical
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.7in
Weight
15.1 Oz
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Publication Date
2011-09-06
Reviews
"[A] Dazzling, Meticulous Biography.", [Schiff] writes against the fabulous grain...There are countless books about Cleopatra, but this one, I suspect, would have been one of her favorites., "Schiff excavates truth from myth with vivid eloquence, taking us back to a life in a time and place that was both 'an orgy of pillage and murder' and 'the Paris of the ancient world.'", "Captivating...Ms. Schiff strips away the accretions of myth that have built up around the Egyptian queen and plucks off the imaginative embroiderings of Shakespeare, Shaw and Elizabeth Taylor. In doing so, she gives us a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world.", Captivating...Ms. Schiff strips away the accretions of myth that have built up around the Egyptian queen and plucks off the imaginative embroiderings of Shakespeare, Shaw and Elizabeth Taylor. In doing so, she gives us a cinematic portrait of a historical figure far more complex and compelling than any fictional creation, and a wide, panning, panoramic picture of her world., Schiff excavates truth from myth with vivid eloquence, taking us back to a life in a time and place that was both 'an orgy of pillage and murder' and 'the Paris of the ancient world.', "A Swift, Sympathetic Life of One of History's Most Maligned and Legendary Women.", "Hugely Compelling...Schiff Sifts Through Gauzy Mythology to Uncover a Brilliant Young Woman.", [An] excellent, myth-busting biography....No one will think of Cleopatra in quite the same way after reading this vivid, provocative book., "Stacy Schiff Has Managed to Create a Masterpiece.", "[An] excellent, myth-busting biography....No one will think of Cleopatra in quite the same way after reading this vivid, provocative book.", "Stacy Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book we'd miss if it didn't exist."-- Wall Street Journal, "[Schiff] writes against the fabulous grain...There are countless books about Cleopatra, but this one, I suspect, would have been one of her favorites."
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932/.021092 B
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Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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