Cleopatra's Daughter: Princess of Egypt, Captive of Rome, Queen of Africa
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Cleopatra's Daughter: Princess of Egypt, Captive of Rome, Queen of Africa
14.99 €
11.99 €
The only daughter of Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII, a prisoner in Rome, the wife of the Moorish king - the fate of Cleopatra Selene was truly extraordinary. She spent her childhood in Alexandria, accompanied her mother on trips around the Mediterranean, received an excellent education: in the future, she was supposed to marry well, give birth to sons, and strengthen the rule of her parents. However, events in the political arena turned out differently. The life of this amazing woman is masterfully restored by the outstanding historian and archaeologist Jane Draycott from ancient coins and mosaics, ivory and bronze, transporting the reader from Alexandria to Actium, from the Palatine Hill to North Africa.
"Certainly, Cleopatra Selene will never reach the glory of her mother, Cleopatra VII. This may be for the best… The fate that awaited Cleopatra Selene – to be born a princess of one of the most ancient kingdoms of the ancient world, to lose her entire family and the title that belonged to her by birthright, to become a Roman prisoner, and finally to accept the crown of an entirely new state and rule it for two decades – is certainly worth our attention. Then her story begins” (Jane Draycott).
"Certainly, Cleopatra Selene will never reach the glory of her mother, Cleopatra VII. This may be for the best… The fate that awaited Cleopatra Selene – to be born a princess of one of the most ancient kingdoms of the ancient world, to lose her entire family and the title that belonged to her by birthright, to become a Roman prisoner, and finally to accept the crown of an entirely new state and rule it for two decades – is certainly worth our attention. Then her story begins” (Jane Draycott).
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