This biography concentrates on Cleopatra's ever-shifting identity. Depending on the audience, she might present herself as a goddess, a political leader, or an alluring and exotic woman. Roman statesmen likewise manipulated Cleopatra's image for their own political ends.
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1. Diodorus Siculus, Library 1.18.5.
2. See Nigel Cawthorne, Alexander the Great (Haus Publishing, London: 2004) 72, 90.
3. Sarah Pomeroy, Women in Hellenistic Egypt From Alexander to Cleopatra (Wayne State University Press, Detroit MI: 1990) 16.
4. Pomeroy, Women 14–18.
5. Pomeroy, Women 19.
6. Plutarch Life of Alexander 26.3.
7. Plutarch, Life of Alexander 26.5–6.
8. Edith Flamarion, Cleopatra: The Life and Death of a Pharaoh, translated by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren (Harry N Abrams, Inc, New York: 1997) 17–18.
9. Strabo, Geography 17.1.7.
10. Michael Grant, Cleopatra (Dorset, New York: 1972) 13.
11. Michel Chauveau, Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth, translated by David Lorton (Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY: 2002) 13.
12. Grant, Cleopatra 17.
13. Appian, Civil Wars 5.8.
14. Plutarch, Life of Antony 3.
15. Grant, Cleopatra 4.
16. Blaise Pascal, Penseés 162.
17. Flamarion, Cleopatra 33.
18. R Mond and O H Myers, The Bucheum with Chapters by T J Baly, D B Harden, J W Jackson, D Sc, G Mattha and Alan W Shorter and the Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Edited by H W Fairman (Egypt Exploratory Society, London: 1934) vol 2 p 13.
19. Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri 4.1.15.
20. Appian, Civil Wars 2.71.
21. Plutarch, Life of Antony 25.5.
22. Plutarch, Life of Pompey 77.4.
23. Appian, Civil Wars 2.86.
24. Cassius Dio, Roman History 42.3–5.
25. Grant, Cleopatra 58, 61.
26. Catullus, Poem 93.
27. Suetonius, The Divine Julius Caesar 49–51.
28. Suetonius, The Divine Julius Caesar 74.
29. In 59 BC, Pompey had married Julius Caesar’s daughter Julia (she died in childbirth in 54 BC).
30. Cassius D...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- The Ptolemies of Egypt
- The Young Cleopatra
- Caesar and Cleopatra in Alexandria
- Cleopatra in Rome
- Antony and Cleopatra in Tarsus
- The Inimitable Life
- Fulvia and Octavia
- The Donations of Alexandria
- The War of Words
- Actium
- Inseparable in Death
- The Fate of Egypt
- Notes
- Chronology
- Sources and Further Reading
- Picture Sources
- Index
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