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Why are we still interested in Cleopatra? She has that eternally attractive combination of sexual allure, political power - even divine status - and personal wealth. She had by any standards an eventful life and an unforgettable death. She very nearly tipped the balance of power at a crucial moment in history: had she and Antony succeeded in maintaining their empire in the east, our cultural life might be very different today. In this concise, readable, well-illustrated 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Cleopatra
• Author: Sally-Ann Ashton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9781853996733
• ISBN: 1853996734
• ID: 04437816
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 188 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 135 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. August 2006

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