Antony & Cleopatra: The Doomed Love Affair That United Ancient Rome & Egypt - Softcover
The tragic love affair of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is a staple of popular ancient history, immortalised by Shakespeare and Hollywood and mercilessly parodied in Carry on Cleo. In this dual biography Patricia Southern attempts to rescue both from the stereotypes, portraying their alliance as a mutually advantageous one, and both of them as capable political operators. Southern has a flair for this kind of narrative-history-with-argument, but she has already written extensively on both Antony and Cleopatra as well as Caesar, and for those who have read those earlier books there will be little new here.
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Patricia Southern is an acknowledged expert the history of ancient Rome. Her interest began very early, fostered by books and the wonderful epic films that they don't make any more. This obsession with the Romans has never waned, so whilst working full time as a librarian she studied for a BA degree in Ancient History with the external department of the University of London, and for an MPhil in Roman Frontier Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she was Librarian of the Archaeology Department for many years. She has written many books on Roman history and contributed numerous articles on Roman history to the BBC History website and the academic Roman studies journal Britannia.
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“...a very good, informative read for anyone interested in the end of the Roman Republic and of the Hellenistic (Strategy Page)
"...opens with the individual chapters on the early life of each of the principals but the book soon begins to treat them in tandem with surprising effectiveness underscoring how intertwined their lives and careers were from 47BC when they probably met for the first time , until their deaths in 30. (NYMAS)
"...opens with the individual chapters on the early life of each of the principals but the book soon begins to treat them in tandem with surprising effectiveness underscoring how intertwined their lives and careers were from 47BC when they probably met for the first time , until their deaths in 30. (NYMAS)
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- PublisherAmberley Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1848683243
- ISBN 13 9781848683242
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages189
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