Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Tyldesley, Joyce

Verlag: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, New York, 2008

Beschreibung

As new condition dark silver gray boards with darker gray spine and silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Joyce Tyldesley; Author Dedication; Family Tree; Maps; Author's Note; Introduction; Who Was Who?; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Cartouches; Acknowledgments and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates, a family tree, and map drawings. "The Romans regarded her as "fatale monstrum" - a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was Cleopatra, really? Her story was documented by her near contemporaries, and the narrative they concocted - the seductive but failing power of ancient Egypt versus the virile strength of modern Rome - is so familiar, we almost feel that we know Cleopatra. But our image is highly distorted. A woman ruled by emotion rather than reason; a queen hurtling towards inevitable self-destruction - these depictions do no justice to Cleopatra's true political genius. Cleopatra was the last effective ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek), very clever (her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were as much to do with politics as the heart), and ruthless with her enemies, Cleopatra very nearly succeeded in creating an eastern empire to rival the growing might in Rome. Stripping away our preconceptions, many of them as old as Egypt's Roman conquerors, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley offers a magnificent biography of a most extraordinary queen." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005753

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt [FIRST ...

Verlag: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition