Egypt
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- Book Review: Antony And Cleopatra
Washington Times (Review by Gary Anderson) ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA By Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, $35, 480 pages Antony and Cleopatra, the names conjure up a variety of images that include Roman military might, eastern decadence and a pair...
- Book Review: Cleopatra The Great
Yorkshire Post (Chris Bond) Cleopatra The Great, The Woman Behind the Legend by Joann Fletcher. Published in paperback by Hodder MENTION the name Cleopatra to most people and it's likely to conjure images of a sultry Elizabeth Taylor draped over Richard...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
Star Tribune (Allen Barra) Cleopatra VII has always inspired a considerable amount of interest. It is nice to see that Joyce Tyldesley's book has been so well received by so many reviewers. Here's another positive review. Cleopatra has generated...
- 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:...
- Book Reviews: Last Queen Of Egypt
Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, Profile Books Ltd.The Telegraph, UK (Review by Helen Brown) If the Emperor Augustus had been able to see into the future, and had a flick through The Daily Telegraph on February 15, 2007, he'd have been delighted...
Egypt
Book Review: The Last Queen of Egypt
Indian Express
See the above address for the entire two-page review.Was Cleopatra only a femme fatale or an ill-fated politician?
Cleopatra has always been a player in other people’s dramas: she can be a coquette, a feminist, a martyr or a villain, a goddess or a fallen woman, even blonde or black. Horace called her the fatale monstrum—the fatal monster. Chaucer made her virtuous. Shakespeare turned her into a romantic heroine. Her nemesis, the Roman Octavian, called her a whore. It is that description—Cleopatra as a vamp, a seductress whose machinations led to the downfall of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony—that dominates the countless depictions in art, literature, theatre, film and history books.
When she died in 30 B.C., she left no writings behind, and much of her city, Alexandria, now lies beneath the Mediterranean. But the shards of evidence the Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley pieces together in her engaging new biography, Cleopatra: The Last Queen of Egypt, reveal why it is so easy to misconstrue her story.
- Book Review: Antony And Cleopatra
Washington Times (Review by Gary Anderson) ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA By Adrian Goldsworthy Yale University Press, $35, 480 pages Antony and Cleopatra, the names conjure up a variety of images that include Roman military might, eastern decadence and a pair...
- Book Review: Cleopatra The Great
Yorkshire Post (Chris Bond) Cleopatra The Great, The Woman Behind the Legend by Joann Fletcher. Published in paperback by Hodder MENTION the name Cleopatra to most people and it's likely to conjure images of a sultry Elizabeth Taylor draped over Richard...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
Star Tribune (Allen Barra) Cleopatra VII has always inspired a considerable amount of interest. It is nice to see that Joyce Tyldesley's book has been so well received by so many reviewers. Here's another positive review. Cleopatra has generated...
- 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:...
- Book Reviews: Last Queen Of Egypt
Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, Profile Books Ltd.The Telegraph, UK (Review by Helen Brown) If the Emperor Augustus had been able to see into the future, and had a flick through The Daily Telegraph on February 15, 2007, he'd have been delighted...