Cleopatra : A Life (CD-Audio)

from KatherineGregg

Schiff has masterfully pieced together sources to paint an illuminating picture of what Alexandria and Rome were like back in the day of Cleopatra and the early Caesars. Fascinating to imagine what a powerful, educated and supremely wealthy woman Cleopatra was. Also interesting to learn that Rome...

from katiekrug

Given that I know very little about Cleopatra, Caesar, Marc Antony, or the time in which they lived, this was a fascinating book. Despite the paucity of sources, and the known bias of many of those sources, Schiff is able to pull together a convincing portrait of a woman who, like so many other h...

from brenzi

There have been volumes written about Cleopatra VII, so why I was drawn to this particular one is a mystery. I love history but what I know about the time of the Egyptian queen could be written on the head of a pin. So it's good that I chose a book that is so readable and so easy for a novice to ...

from brenzi

There have been volumes written about Cleopatra VII, so why I was drawn to this particular one is a mystery. I love history but what I know about the time of the Egyptian queen could be written on the head of a pin. So it's good that I chose a book that is so readable and so easy for a novice to ...

from rmckeown

Cleopatra is arguably, as Stacy Schiff stated in a recent interview, the most famous woman we know so little about. I would add the most famous woman about whom so many myths and misperceptions swirl about her. Schiff has set down a detailed biography drawn from contemporary sources, including Pl...