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Cleopatra

Ashton: Cleopatra and Egypt. Paperback

Cleopatra and Egypt. Hardback
Sally-Ann Ashton
240 pages, 43 illustrations. 2008. This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint an intimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt.

Cleopatra. Paperback
Ernle Bradford
288 pages, with facsimiles, portraits. 2000. Had Julius Ceasar not been murdered, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, might well have become the Empress of Rome and all the Mediterranean world, living to see it ruled by a Julian-Ptolemaic dynasty. This text presents a biography of a legendary women.

Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth. Hardcover
Michel Chauveau, translated from the French by David Lorton
viii, 104 pages, map, biblography, index, chronology of the Ptolemies. 2002. Attempts to correct the myths surrounding Cleopatra's personal and public lives by discussing such issues as her relationship with Mark Antony and the efforts she and others made to romanticize her own life

Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth. Paperback
Michel Chauveau, translated from the French by David Lorton
viii, 104 pages, map, biblography, index, chronology of the Ptolemies. 2002. Attempts to correct the myths surrounding Cleopatra's personal and public lives by discussing such issues as her relationship with Mark Antony and the efforts she and others made to romanticize her own life

Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra: History and Society Under the Ptolemies. Paperback.
by Chauveau, Michel / Lorton, David (TRN)
vii, 226 pages, 44 illustrations. 2000. Coming to power just before the unstable state was about to be absorbed into an autocratic empire, Cleopatra oversaw not only Egypt's progress as an influential regional power, but also the fragile peace of its ethnically mixed population.

Cleopatra. Cloth
by Pat Southern. 160 pages, with bibliography and index, 33 illustrations / maps. 1999. Cleopatra was intimately involved in the years that saw the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire. How this transition appeared and the part she played in it, is the subject of this engrossing new biograpy

Cleopatra. Last Queen of Egypt. Hardback
By: Joyce Tyldesley
320 pages, 16 b&w & colour plates. 2008. She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever, she steered her kingdom through impossibly taxing internal problems and against greedy Roman imperialism.

Cleopatras: Traces the lives of the famous Cleopatra's historical important namesakes. Cloth
by John Whitehorne. 244 pages, 21 illustrations. 1994. Although there are many books about the famous Cleopatra, this is the first study in English also devoted to her less well-known, but equally illustrious, namesakes. "Cleopatras" looks at the lives and careers of the most important royal women of that name in the last three centuries BC