Cleopatra [electronic resource] : a biography / Duane W. Roller.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roller, Duane W.
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Series:Women in antiquity.
Subjects:
Cleopatra, > Queen of Egypt, > -30 B.C.
Queens > Egypt > Biography.
Egypt > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Egypt > History > 332-30 B.C.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2010 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Cleopatra: A Biography
Format: Electronic eBook
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.