Cleopatra: A Life Tapa dura - 2010

Virgin Books, 11/04/2010. Hardcover. Used; Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

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London England: Virgin, 2010. Hardback. Cleopatra. A Life. Tiny mark to inside cover.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She weighed a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family specialities. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. She had a son with Caesar and, after his murder, three more with his protege. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Along the way the supple personality has been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, the author boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death… Leer más

New York ; London : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. First Hardback Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; viii, 368 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm. Subjects; Cleopatra Queen of Egypt -30 B.C. ; Biography. Cleopatra Queen of Egypt -30 B.C. Queens Egypt ; Biography. Kings and rulers. Egypt Kings and rulers ; Biography.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.