Cleoparta by Ernie Bradford

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If Caesar had not been murdered, Cleopatra might well have become Empress of Rome and all the Mediterranean world_ living to see it under a Julian-Ptolemaic dynasty. She lost Egypt. and everything else_ largely through Antony's declining abilities as a man and a generaL
Only seventeen years old when she came to the throne in 51 BC... this ambitious young woman watched with fascination the savage struggle then proceeding between Caesar and Pompey, hoping that Rome would destroy itself in the process. An intellectual_ a brilliant linguist, and an astute politician. Cleopatra devoted her life to trying to save the kingdom of Egypt from domination by the Romans It is possible that her attachments to Caesar and to Antony - whom she married - were prompted as much by political considerations as by passion_
The waxing and waning powers of the mystic 'Queen of the Nile' and the bitter conflict between the two great cities of Latin Rome and Greek Alexandria are here described with eloquence and immediacy in a brilliant narrative. accompanied by a vivid series of illustrations in colour and monochrome.
Author of 'Ulysses Found'. Great
Siege of 2. and other successful and engrossing books. Ernie Bradford has a special interest in and knowledge of the Ancient World, and brings ex: - - nal powers of description and historical . :reconstruction to this biography of one of the world's legendary women, the first life of Cleopatra to be illustrated from the resources of art. archaeology and photographic expertise.
The jacket shows a detail from a frieze on the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu with the goddess Isis wearing the vulture headdress surmounted by the moon and cow's horns, the emblems of Hathor. It is believed that Cleopatra was the model for this representation of the goddess, but whether or not that is true, this artistry is definitely of her period.