Cleopatra (Ancients in Action) (Ancients in Action)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishing
Published: October 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781853996733
Subjects: African history: BCE to c 500 CE; Biography: general; Literary; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Ancient Egypt; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Historical - General; Biographies & Memoirs / Biographies; Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Description: "In this concise book, Susan Walker and Sally-Ann Ashton look at the historical Cleopatra, at images of Cleopatra as a Greek queen and as ruler of Egypt, at contemporary perceptions of her and at how we see her today. We see how Roman propaganda depicted her as a threatening woman with non-Roman qualities of excessive behaviour and emotional manipulation, a view that has come down through Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and forms the basis of our understanding of her over two thousand years later."--Jacket.