Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801438675 ISBN 13: 9780801438677
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. vii, 104 pages, illustrations, maps; 22 cm. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "'Cleopatra's kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been schooled in the myth of the Egyptian ruler. In his new book Michel Chauveau brings us a picture of her firmly based in reality. Cleopatra VII reigned in Egypt between 51 and 30 B.C.E. Her primary goal as a ruler was to restore over the eastern Mediterranean the supremacy of the Lagides, the dynasty of Macedonian origin of which she herself was a descendant. We know the queen best from Greek and Latin sources, though these must be used with caution because of their bias. Understandably enough, they reflect not only matters of interest to Romans, but also the propaganda that Octavian used against the queen during his struggles with Mark Antony. Chauveau combines his knowledge of Egyptian sources with judicious use of classical materials to produce an authoritative biography of Cleopatra, the woman and queen, seen in the light of the turbulent era in which she lived. / Michel Chauveau is a former member of the Institut Francais. d'Archeologie Orientale in Cairo, and is currently director of studies at L'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He is the author of Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and Society under the Ptolemies, also from Cornell. David Lorton, an Egyptologist, lives in Baltimore, Maryland." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2002
ISBN 10: 0801438675 ISBN 13: 9780801438677
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 1st.
Published by Cornell University Press., Ithaca, NY, 2000
ISBN 10: 0801485762 ISBN 13: 9780801485763
Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. 1st Edition. First printing in trade paperback. 226 pp. Illustrations, notes, glossary, index. Hinf of shelfwear otherwise Fine.