Egypt
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With an exerpt from the book following the review.
- Book Review: Antony And Cleopatra
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono) Adrian Goldsworthy, Antony and Cleopatra. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2010. Adrian Goldsworthy is the author of an impressive stream of titles on Roman history that fall into the...
- Review: Schiff's Cleopatra
Voice of America (David Byrd) A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff tackles the life, death and legacy of Cleopatra. Schiff's work challenges some of the assumptions long held about Egypt's last queen. It has been said...
- Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Josiah Osgood) Duane W. Roller, Cleopatra: A Biography. Women in Antiquity. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cleopatra is a familiar name today for one reason above all: Shakespeare. But so memorable...
- Book Review: Cleopatra - A Biography
New York Times (Tracy Lee Simmons) CLEOPATRA. A Biography By Duane W. Roller Oxford University Press As usual with popular modern book reviews for, part of the review is the summary of the story told by the book's author. But the reviewer also comments...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
STLtoday (Allen Barra) Cleopatra has generated more fame — in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films — per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, "Cleopatra:...
Egypt
Book Review: Cleopatra - A biography
npr
With an exerpt from the book following the review.
Cleopatra was a tragic temptress who left a string of broken hearts up and down the Nile -- or at least, that's what her enemies in Rome wanted you to think.
Now, a new biography of the Egyptian queen aims to set the record straight.
Historian Duane Roller is the author of Cleopatra: A Biography, and he tells NPR's Guy Raz that the most popular images of Cleopatra came from a smear campaign waged by Rome.
"You have to remember, the information that we have about her was written by the people who defeated her -- her enemies," Roller says. "They saw her as a dangerous threat to the Roman Republic and [built] her up as this horrible woman who led men to their doom."
In fact, Roller says, while Cleopatra did have relationships with both Julius Caesar and his deputy Mark Antony, they were the only men in her life. "They were the two most important people in Rome in their era," Roller says, "so her connection with them was not purely a matter of physicality, it was a political decision."
- Book Review: Antony And Cleopatra
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Lee Fratantuono) Adrian Goldsworthy, Antony and Cleopatra. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2010. Adrian Goldsworthy is the author of an impressive stream of titles on Roman history that fall into the...
- Review: Schiff's Cleopatra
Voice of America (David Byrd) A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff tackles the life, death and legacy of Cleopatra. Schiff's work challenges some of the assumptions long held about Egypt's last queen. It has been said...
- Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Josiah Osgood) Duane W. Roller, Cleopatra: A Biography. Women in Antiquity. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cleopatra is a familiar name today for one reason above all: Shakespeare. But so memorable...
- Book Review: Cleopatra - A Biography
New York Times (Tracy Lee Simmons) CLEOPATRA. A Biography By Duane W. Roller Oxford University Press As usual with popular modern book reviews for, part of the review is the summary of the story told by the book's author. But the reviewer also comments...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
STLtoday (Allen Barra) Cleopatra has generated more fame — in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films — per known fact than any woman in history. As Joyce Tyldesley phrases it in her fascinating and irresistible biography, "Cleopatra:...