Cleopatra

Ashton: Cleopatra and Egypt. Hardback

Cleopatra and Egypt. Hardback
Sally-Ann Ashton
240 pages, 43 illustrations. 2008. This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint an intimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt.

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Ashton: The Last Queens of Egypt: Cleopatra's Royal House. Hardcover

Last Queens of Egypt: Cleopatra's Royal House. Hardcover
by Sally-Ann Ashton
200 pages. 2003. Examining the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and exploring their part in religion, politics and court intrigue, Sally-Ann Ashton shows the extent of the power they enjoyed, the price they paid and how they shaped Cleopatra's reign

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Bradford: Cleopatra. Paperback

Cleopatra. Paperback
Ernle Bradford
288 pages, with facsimiles, portraits. 2000. Had Julius Ceasar not been murdered, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, might well have become the Empress of Rome and all the Mediterranean world, living to see it ruled by a Julian-Ptolemaic dynasty. This text presents a biography of a legendary women.

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Chauveau: Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth. Hardcover

Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth. Hardcover
Michel Chauveau, translated from the French by David Lorton
viii, 104 pages, with map, notes, biblography, index, chronology of the Ptolemies. 2002.
Attempts to correct the myths surrounding Cleopatra's personal and public lives by discussing such issues as her relationship with Mark Antony and the efforts she and others made to romanticize her own life

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Chauveau: Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra. Paperback

Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and Society Under the Ptolemies. Paperback.
by Chauveau, Michel / Lorton, David (TRN)
vii, 226 pages, with map of Egypt, notes, glossary and index, 44 illustrations. 2000
Coming to power just before the unstable state was about to be absorbed into an autocratic empire, Cleopatra oversaw not only Egypt's progress as an influential regional power, but also the fragile peace of its ethnically mixed population. This text explores life under this queen

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Cox, Hunter: Forensic Archaeology: Advances in Theory and Practice. Paperback

Forensic Archaeology: Advances in Theory and Practice. Paperback
by Margaret Cox, John Hunter
256 pages, 50 line drawings, 25 photos. 2005. This new and updated edition of a textbook universally hailed as an indispensible guide, is a complete introduction to the methods and means of forensic archaeology.

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Kleiner: Cleopatra and Rome. Hardback

Cleopatra and Rome. Hardback
Diana E.E. Kleiner
352 pages, with 42 colour illustrations and 29 halftones. 2005. Here we experience the synthesis of Cleopatra's and Rome's defining moments through surviving works of art and other remnants of what was once an opulent material culture: religious and official architecture, cult statuary, honorary portraiture, villa paintings, tombstones and coinage, and the theatrical display of clothing.

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Southern: Cleopatra. Cloth

Cleopatra. Cloth
by Pat Southern

160 pages, with bibliography and index, 33 illustrations / maps. 1999. Cleopatra was intimately involved in the years that saw the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire. How this transition appeared and the part she played in it, is the subject of this engrossing new biograpy

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Tyldesley: Cleopatra. Last Queen of Egypt. Hardback

Cleopatra. Last Queen of Egypt. Hardback
By: Joyce Tyldesley
320 pages, 16 pages with b&w & colour plates. 2008. She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever (her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were as much to do with politics as the heart), she steered her kingdom through impossibly taxing internal problems and against greedy Roman imperialism.

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Whitehorne: Cleopatras: Traces the lives of the famous Cleopatra's historical important namesakes. Cloth

Cleopatras: Traces the lives of the famous Cleopatra's historical important namesakes. Cloth
by John Whitehorne
244 pages, 21 illustrations. 1994. Although there are many books about the famous Cleopatra, this is the first study in English also devoted to her less well-known, but equally illustrious, namesakes. "Cleopatras" looks at the lives and careers of the most important royal women of that name in the last three centuries BC

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