Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Josiah Osgood)
Duane W. Roller, Cleopatra: A Biography. Women in Antiquity. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
- 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...
- Book Review: Cleopatra
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- Book Review: Cleopatra And Antony
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- These Ten Mummies
The idea of Mark Antony and Cleopatra being buried together I find absurd and politically unsound for Octavian. I would expect Cleopatra's mummy to have found its way to Rome perhaps and maybe even Mark Antony's head but this I doubt and would...
Egypt
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 is the character that he created, it is hard, even for historians, to escape his influence. And to a large degree they must anyway rely on the same source that Shakespeare did, the Antony of Plutarch, whose Cleopatra is perhaps less paradoxical than Shakespeare’s, but still surprising. It was not, for instance, Cleopatra’s beauty (Plutarch writes) that was so striking, as one might have expected, but her conversation. A master manipulator, she can trick the reader almost as much as she does the simple-minded Antony. But the biggest surprise is the deep love that Cleopatra does finally feel for Antony at the end of her life. She comes to his grave and laments over it—a lament probably made up by Plutarch himself on the model of Greek tragedy. She wants to be with Antony in death.
Certainly there was a relationship between Antony and Cleopatra, as there had been earlier between Cleopatra and Caesar, and these were defining events in her life. But there were two very practical aspects to them that later accounts, including Plutarch’s, underplay or neglect altogether.
- 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...
- Book Review: Cleopatra
Forbes (Review by Hannah Elliott) Cleopatra: A Biography By Duane W. Roller (Oxford University Press, $16.47) Forget what you think you know about Cleopatra. She wasn't a voracious seductress who led men to their doom. She never wore bangs à la Liz...
- Book Review: Cleopatra And Antony
Washington Post (By Jonathan Yardley) Cleopatra and Antony - Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World By Diana Preston Walker and Company More than two millennia after it took place, the story of Cleopatra has lost none of its grip on the world's...
- Book Review: Cleopatra, Last Queen Of Egypt
JS Online (Allen Barra) Cleopatra, Last Queen of Egypt. By Joyce Tyldesley. Basic Books. Cleopatra has generated more fame - in the form of poems, paintings, books, plays and films - per known fact than any woman in history. Advertisement As Joyce Tyldesley...
- These Ten Mummies
The idea of Mark Antony and Cleopatra being buried together I find absurd and politically unsound for Octavian. I would expect Cleopatra's mummy to have found its way to Rome perhaps and maybe even Mark Antony's head but this I doubt and would...