Cleopatra
Subtitle: histories, dreams and distortions
By: Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Cleopatra, -- Queen of Egypt, -- d. 30 B.C; Cleopatra, -- Queen of Egypt, -- d. 30 B.C. -- In literature; Queens -- Egypt -- Biography
Description: Cleopatra, a competent Hellenistic ruler who was celibate for over half of her adult life, has been remembered as the heroine of an exotic love story and has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography:  p. 321-330.