Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt

The Romans regarded her as "fatale monstrum" -- a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was Cleopatra, really?

We almost feel that we know Cleopatra, but our distorted image of a self-destructive beauty does no justice to Cleopatra's true genius. In Cleopatra, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley offers an unexpectedly vivid portrait of a skillful Egyptian ruler. Stripping away our preconceptions, many of them as old as Egypt's Roman conquerors, Cleopatra is a magnificent biography of a most extraordinary queen.

ISBN-13: 9780465018925

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 06-22-2010

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

Dr. Joyce Tyldesley holds a first class honors degree in archaeology from Liverpool University, and a doctorate from Oxford University. She is currently a lecturer in Egyptology at the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, Fellow of the Manchester Museum and Honorary Research Fellow at Liverpool University. She has acted as consultant on several television projects and has excavated extensively in Egypt and Europe. Her previous books include a sequence of popular biographies of Egyptian pharaohs, with particular emphasis on the lives of prominent Egyptian women. She lives in Bolton, England.

Table of Contents

Family tree     viii
Maps     x
Author's Note     xiii
Introduction     1
Princess of Egypt     10
Queen of Egypt     41
Alexandria-next-to-Egypt     70
Cleopatra and Julius Caesar     94
The New Isis     109
Cleopatra and Mark Antony     140
Death of a Dream     171
Cleopatra's Children     197
History Becomes Legend     205
Who Was Who?     218
Chronology     239
Notes     241
Bibliography     260
List of Illustrations     266
Cartouches     268
Acknowledgements     269
Index     270 Show More