Cleopatra : a biography / Duane W. Roller.

Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In the centuries since her death in 30 BC, she has been endlessly portrayed in the arts and popular culture, from Shakespearean tragedy to paintings, opera, and movies. Despite...

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Main Author: Roller, Duane W.
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Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Women in antiquity.
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505 0 |a Cleopatra's ancestry and background -- The Ptolemaic heritage and the entanglement with Rome -- Cleopatra's youth and education -- Becoming queen (51-47 BC) -- Consolidating the empire (47-40 BC) -- The peak years (40-34 BC) -- The operation of the kingdom -- Royal administration -- The royal building program -- Isis and Dionysos -- Foreign policy and the matter of Herod the Great -- Scholarship and culture at the court of Cleopatra -- Downfall (34-30 BC) -- Outline of Cleopatra's life and career -- Cleopatra's mother -- Was Cleopatra a Roman citizen? -- Some ancient literary descriptions of Cleopatra -- Genealogy -- The iconography of Cleopatra. 
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