Cleopatra. Life. More than a Biography
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Cleopatra. Life. More than a Biography
14.99 €
Biography author and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff has created a vivid portrait of the most controversial woman in world history, Cleopatra, the last ruler of Egypt. Her palace glittered with jewels and gold and was famous for political games. Cleopatra had close relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, but her personality was too tightly veiled in a romantic veil. Egyptian queen was not in the shadow of these most prominent Romans of the time - ruler of almost the entire Eastern Mediterranean, the last of the great kingdoms in the history of Egypt, was a strong ruler, able to create its fleet, suppress rebellion, keep the money rate, feed the hungry. She spoke nine languages fluently and was a shrewd strategist and skillful negotiator. Her image was recreated by William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and many of our contemporaries judge the appearance and character of the queen by her cinematic "double" - the brilliant Elizabeth Taylor. However, not all the details of Cleopatra's dramatic life, not all facets of her complex character can be reflected by artistic means, in addition, a lot of information has been lost or mythologized. Professionally working with classical sources, Stacy Schiff masterfully separates fact from fiction to reveal the true Cleopatra to the world. Rich in information and epic in scope, this book, translated into 30 languages, is an in-depth and meticulously researched reconstruction of the life of this extraordinary person, with a tab of color illustrations making her image even more visible. "To reconstruct Cleopatra's personality is to treat the few extant facts with care..... Recent research sheds a whole new light on the women's history of Antiquity and Hellenistic Egypt." (Stacey Schiff)
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