Cleopatra: A Life (2010)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 9780316001922

Condition: Good 

The spine is slightly crooked and there is a stamp on the bottom. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life. - from the inside flap