Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was
richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra
was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married
twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the
first and poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family
specialties. She had children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, two of
the most prominent Romans of the day. With Antony she would attempt to
forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled both their ends. Famous
long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for
all the wrong reasons. Her supple personality and the drama of her
circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical
sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the
magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
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