Cleopatra : a Sphinx revisited /
Cleopatra--a brave, astute, and charming woman who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into battle, eliminated siblings to consolidate her power, and held off the threat of Imperial Rome to protect her country as long as she could--continues to fascinate centuries after she rule...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2011]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Cleopatra in Egypt, Europe, and New York: an introduction / Margaret M. Miles
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt / Sally-Ann Ashton
- Cleopatra in Rome: facts and fantasies / Eric S. Gruen
- Dying like a queen: the story of Cleopatra and the asp(s) in antiquity / Robert A. Gurval
- Cleopatra, Isis, and the formation of Augustan Rome / Sarolta A. Takács
- Love, triumph, tragedy: Cleopatra and Egypt in high Renaissance Rome / Brian A. Curran
- The amazing afterlife of Cleopatra's love potions / Ingrid D. Rowland
- HRH Cleopatra: the last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith
- Glamour girls: Cleomania in mass culture / Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserrat
- Every man's Cleopatra / Giuseppe Pucci
- Cleopatra: the sphinx revisited / Peter Green.