Cleopatra A Life

Stacy Schiff, Robin Miles

eAudio - 2010

­Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and—after his murder—three more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relatio...nship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. In a masterly return...

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Stacy Schiff, Robin Miles
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File Size412 GB
Parts12
ISBN9780307877390
Release Date11/2/2010
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size411 GB
ISBN9780307877390
Release Date11/2/2010