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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Interesting but not an easy read ( ) A well written and interesting biography, showing how the political relationship between Egypt as a rich, independent state and the ever encroaching Roman Empire intertwined with the subject's personal relations with Caesar and Antony. The Ptolemaic dynasty is truly alien to those of us much more familiar with European royal families. no reviews | add a review
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The distinguished historian and classicist Michael Grant confirms that her reputation as a temptress was well-founded. However, by unravelling the sources behind the tangle of myth, gossip and invention he shows that the popular image of a wayward woman opting for a life of sensuous luxury and neglecting her affairs of state is far from the truth. A brilliant linguist and the first of her Greek-speaking dynasty who learned Egyptian, she was reputed to be the author of treatises on agriculture, make-up and alchemy. Her love affairs were carefully calculated to further her plans to restore her empire to its former greatness and she was a ruthless foe to all who stood in her way. But dead on her golden couch in the palace at Alexandria her life seemed to have ended in failure; her dreams of empire shattered; her lover Mark Antony a suicide himself and she a prisoner of her conqueror Octavian. An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary queen and her stormy life. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)932.021History and Geography Ancient World Ancient Egypt to 640 Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine periods, 332 b.c-640 ad. Hellenistic period, 332-30 b.c.LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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