Cleopatra her history, her myth
The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or...
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[2022]
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- The life of Cleopatra. The Ptolemaic background ; A transfer of power ; Caesar and Cleopatra ; Mark Antony ; The final act begins ; The snake -- The afterlife of Cleopatra. The pearl ; Shakespeare's Cleopatra ; Cleopatra on film. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All we have to tell her story are words written by others. 0 What has it meant for our understanding of Cleopatra to have had her story told by writers who had a political agenda, authors who distrusted her motives, and historians who believed she was a liar? Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film. She challenges the common narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offers a new interpretation of Cleopatra's history from the lens of our own era. | |
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