Cleopatra

The Pulitzer Prize winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world She was married twice, each time to a brother She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers She poisoned the second Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well incest and assassination were family specialties Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day Both were married to other women Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and after his murder three with his prot g Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name Along the way, Cleopatra s supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff s is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life. New Read [ Cleopatra ] by [ Stacy Schiff ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr First and foremost this is a history book The plot is taken from real time 2,000 years ago It hasn t been bloated with fantastical elements or intense drama In fact, if you were reading this book as you would a work of fiction, you ll find yourself sadly lacking that same kind of connection to Cleopatra as you would to a main character in a novel Why Because Cleopatra is nearly unknowable And she s not a fictional character She s spoken of from a distance, seenthrough the eyes of me First and foremost this is a h...So far, I am very disappointed in this book by a Pulitzer Prize winning author She uses very long paragraphs that should have been divided She puts her points embedded so that it s hard for a reader to see what she intends to be significant There are clever pieces that are not at all clever The author says she will not create material but may create context from other sources, but she does not give the reader cues For example, in Chapter II she goes on and on about Cleopatra s education, So far, I am very disappointed in this book by a Pulitzer Prize winning author She uses very long paragraphs that should have been divided She puts her points embedded so that it s hard for a reader to see what she intends to be significant There are clever pieces that are not at all clever The author says she will not create material but may create context from other sources, but she does not give the reader cues For example, in Chapter II she goes on and on about Cleopatra s education, includi...Beginning a month or forty days of biographies, I thought I would work through this buddy read In her biography of Cleopatra, Schiff takes the reader along a winding adventure into the world before the Common Era, where actions to unite came at the cost of land and life, both bloody endeavours Born into the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt, Cleopatra was of Macedonia Greek origin at a time of much political and geographic change Her family ruled over the region with an iron fist and would Beginning a month or forty days of biographies, I thought I would work through this buddy read In her biography of Cleopatra, Schiff takes the reader along a winding adventure into the world before the Common Era, where actions to unite came at the cost of land and life, both bloody endeavours Born into the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt, Cleopatra was of Macedonia Greek origin at a time of much political and geographic change Her family ruled over the region with an iron fist and would not ...Stacy Schiff has a serious girl crush on Cleopatra If you want to read 300 pages about how awesome Queen Cleo was, then this is the book for you I remembered little about the famous Egyptian ruler from world history class in high school, and I don t think the Elizabeth Taylor movie counts as a documentary, so Schiff s book felt like my introduction to Cleopatra The book covers her family, her childhood, her education, her ability to charm and manipulate, her relationships with Julius Caesar an Stacy Schiff has a serious girl crush on Cleopatra If you want to read 300 pages about how awesome Queen Cleo was, then this is the book for you I remembered little about the famous Egyptian ruler from world history class in high school, and I don t think the Elizabeth Taylor movie counts as a documentary, so Schiff s book felt like my introduction to Cleopatra The book covers her family, her childhood, her education, her ability to charm and manipulate, her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, the political climate in Rome and Alexandria, her death, and her enduring appeal Among the most famous women to ...Stacy Schiff s Cleopatra A Life is speculative, borderline revisionist history It is unabashedly pro Cleopatra, and ya know what That s okay Schiff looks at all the historical accounts many of which did not paint the Egyptian queen in a kindly light and attempts to distort the image so that the portrait favors her subject muchthan history has For all that, Schiff offers sound speculation Her what ifs and perhapses chime with the ring of truth After all, history is written by the Stacy Schiff s Cleopatra A Life is speculative, borderline revisio...Perhaps of all the historic characters we think we know, but don t, Cleopatra ranks at the top of the list Sometimes a legend is so well known that we lose track of the fact that a real human being was living this story, fighting these battles, and harboring these emotions What an extraordinary person she must have been to have lived through so much in her short thirty nine years and to have influenced history in the way that she did First fact that I did not know She was Cleopatra VII Ther Perhaps of all the historic characters we think we know, but don t, Cleopatra ranks at the top of the list Sometimes a legend is so well known that we lose track of the fact that a real human being was living this story, fighting these battles, and harboring these emotions What an extraordinary person she must have been to have lived through so much in her short thirty nine years and to have influenced history in the way that she did First fact that I did not know She was Cleopatra VII There were five before her, but someone screwed up the count a...number one thing that I learned from Cleopatra A Life was this I had deceived myself in thinking I knew anything about her before reading this book Stacy Schiff digs deep into the life of one of the most well known, yet misunderstood women in history Most of us know her as the Egyptian queen who had affairs children with both Caesar and Mark Antony, the two most powerful men of their age She herself was much, muchthan that.Cleopatra was a fa number one thing that I learned from Cleopatra A Life was this I had deceived myself in thinking I knew anything about her before reading this book Stacy Schiff digs deep into the life of one of the most well known, yet misunderstood women in history Most of us know her as the Egyptian queen who had affairs children with both Caesar and Mark Antony, the two most powerful men of their age She herself was much, muchthan that.Cleopatra was a fabulously rich woman In contemporary terms, her net worth would be around 95.8 billion dollars She was worththan three Queen Elizabeth IIs Amazingly, she also lived in a culture were women were greatly empowered A woman in first century B.C could choose her own husband, own property, grant their own divorces, operate businesses, and serve as priests As much as one third of Egypt was controlled by female hands.There are many other things that stick out to me about Cleopatra s life The biggest was her incestuo...Released to rave reviews and the full packaging monty of its publisher, Stacy Schiff s Cleopatra took the NYT by storm in 2011, remaining there for months And no wonder This kamikaze of masterly writing, meticulous and thorough research, and humanizing hand of the author did a spectacular job of unmasking the woman behind the myth and debunking the lies we today call slander This is the biography of Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator as the title implies but it is done unlike any other PLEA Released to rave reviews and the full packaging monty of its publisher, Stacy Schiff s Cleopatra took the NYT by storm in 2011, remaining there for months And no wonder This kamikaze of masterly writing, meticulous and thorough research, and humanizing hand of the author did a spectacular job of unmasking the woman behind the myth and debunking the lies we today call slander This is the biography of Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator as the title implies but it is done unlike any other PLEASE remove the images of Liz Taylor in near drag from your mind as you embark on this one, for this work is a truly stunning portrayal of the woman behind the parable This biography delves into her marriages, her political decisions, her rise and her downfall The flap said it all In fact,...What I learned from this book in no particular order 1 Cleo was an insatiable vamp who seduced two of the most powerful men in Rome using her feminine wiles Cleo might have used her wiles to seduce them, but both Julius and Mark were hardly paragons of chastity themselves Julius specialized in seducing aristocratic wives , while Mark had numerous affairs with both single and married women.2 Cleo looked like Elizabeth Taylor with too much mascara We just don t really know how she looked What I learned from this book in no particular order 1 Cleo was an insatiable vamp who seduced two of the most powerful men in Rome using her feminine wiles Cleo might have used her wiles to seduce them, but both Julius and Mark were hardly ...When Egypt Ruled the East by George Steindorff this book is not.I have read many books on Egyptian history all the way up through the Ptolemies who, somehow, through some sort of rhetorical magic, were made to be as dry and dull as dead leaves in winter in Cleopatra A Life I have read many history books I consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of the genre I even inhale historical fiction Some of these books have been utter and complete crap I have manned up and finished books that wou When Egypt Ruled the East by George Steindorff...

• English
• 13 August 2018
Stacy Schiff
• Hardcover
• 302 pages
• 0316001929
• Stacy Schiff
• Cleopatra