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Duane W. Roller Cleopatra (Paperback) Women in Antiquity (US IMPORT)

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Publication Name
Cleopatra
Subtitle
A Biography
ISBN-10
0199829969
EAN
9780199829965
ISBN
9780199829965
Release Year
2012
Release Date
26/01/2012
Title
Cleopatra
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Length
155mm
Series
Women in Antiquity
UPC
9780199829965
Book Title
Cleopatra: a Biography
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
234mm
Author
Duane W. Roller
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
History
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
356g
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and kingdom.Roller's authoritative account is the first to be based solely on primary materials from the Greco-Roman period: literary sources, Egyptian documents (Cleopatra's own writings), and representations in art and coinage produced while she was alive. His compelling portrait of the queen illuminates her prowess as a royal administrator who managed a large and diverse kingdom extending from Asia Minor to the interior of Egypt, as a naval commander who led her own fleet in battle, and as a scholar and supporter of the arts. Even her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius--the source of her reputation as a supreme seductress who drove men to their doom--were carefully crafted state policies: she chose these partners to insure the procreation of successors who would be worthy of her distinguished dynasty. That Cleopatra ultimately lost to her Roman opponents, Roller contends, in no way diminishes her abilities. Roller tells his tale smoothly and accessibly....The resulting portrait is that of a complex, many-sided figure, a potent Hellenistic ruler who could move the tillers of power as skillfully as any man, and one far and nobly removed from the 'constructed icon' of popular imagination. --The New York Times Book Review A rich account of late Ptolemaic culture. --The New Yorker Offers a superb panorama of the society and culture of late Ptolemaic Egypt, with vivid sketches of the (remarkably vigorous) intellectual life of Cleopatra's Alexandria and the structural instabilities of the late Ptolemaic state. --Times Literary Supplement Besides providing a compelling story and breathing fresh air into a heretofore two-dimensional caricature from history, Roller's 'Cleopatra' provides an interesting commentary on the attitudes still prevalent towards women who rule. --Christian Science Monitor

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Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN-13
9780199829965
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Book Title
Cleopatra: a Biography
Author
Duane W. Roller
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
356g

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Duane W. Roller
Series Title
Women in Antiquity
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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