Cleopatra : a biography / Duane W. Roller.
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Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Series: | Women in antiquity.
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Physical Description: | xi, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Cleopatra's ancestry and background
- The Ptolemaic heritage and the involvement with Rome
- Cleopatra's youth and education
- Becoming queen (51-47 BC)
- Consolidating the empire (47-40 BC)
- The peak years (40-34 BC)
- The operation of the kingdom
- Scholarship and culture at the court of Cleopatra
- Downfall (34-30 BC)
- Outline of Cleopatra's life and career
- Genealogy of the later Ptolemies
- Cleopatra's mother
- Was Cleopatra a Roman citizen?
- Some ancient literary descriptions of Cleopatra
- The iconography of Cleopatra VII.