Cleopatra
Subtitle: Beyond the Myth
Contributors: David Lorton (Translator)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780801438677
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Biography: general; BCE to c 500 CE; Cleopatra,; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Queens; Biography/Autobiography; Ancient Egypt; Egypt; Historical - General; Women; Biography; d. 30 B.C; Ancient - Egypt; Queen of Egypt,
First sentence: The reign of Cleopatra represented the end of one of humanity's greatest adventures, which began with Alexander's conquest of the East, from the Nile to the Indus, permitting the formation of states with mixed, multicultural populations dominated by a Greek or Hellenized minority.
Description: ""Cleopatra": kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been schooled in the myth of the Egyptian ruler. In his new book Michel Chauveau brings us a picture of her firmly based in reality."--BOOK JACKET.