Cleopatra
Queen of Egypt, scholar, murderer, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony...the perfect subject for distinguished historian Grant, who debunks the image of a wayward woman and replaces it with a brilliant linguist and strategist.
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Queen of Egypt, scholar, murderess, lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony...Grant’s portrait is of an extraordinary queen and her stormy life. A brilliant linguist and the first of her Greek-speaking dynasty to learn Egyptian, Cleopatra is reputed to be the author of treatises on agriculture, make-up, and alchemy. “Michael Grant never fails to be lively and well-informed and he has done more, single-handedly, to blow the dust off the classical world than any comparable popularizer.”—Sunday Times. Michael Grant “is a unique figure among the classical scholars of our time.”—Spectator
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