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...
| Main Author: | Prose, Francine, 1947- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2022]
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| Series: |
Ancient lives
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Table of Contents:
- 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.