Title: The drowning king
Description: Sharing the throne of Egypt with her eleven-year-old brother Ptolemy, Cleopatra is caught in a power struggle and forced to flee during a rebel uprising, while her sister Arsinoe, who follows Cleopatra into exile, is forced to chose between betraying her family or her country.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Egypt, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Egypt
People: Arsinoe IV Queen of Egypt (-41 B.C), Cleopatra Queen of Egypt (-30 B.C)
Time periods: Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.