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Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

The most famous of Egyptians, Cleopatra was in fact Greek: the product of a Macedonian dynasty who had been gifted Egypt by Alexander the Great. At 21, she was embroiled in a civil war against her 13-year-old brother-husband. She saved herself by appealing to Julius Caesar, who later fathered her child. As Schiff argues, this was no unequal alliance. The newly fledged dictator would have had much to learn from a refined and cultivated queen whose people considered her divine. With luminous prose and outstanding research, Schiff immerses us in Cleopatra’s world. She notes the allure of Alexandria – ‘a scholar’s paradise with a quick business pulse’ – and of her palace: a place of astonishing luxury, where roses were trodden underfoot at banquets that lasted until dawn.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2016
• Metallic Yellow Cloth Hardback, 384 pp
• Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour plates, 2 maps
• Size 255 x 180mm, 1.4kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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