As a youngster, my ideas about Cleopatra were first shaped by the Liz Taylor movie. (She also surfaces as a ghoulish monster in an Anne Rice novel.) As I grew up and read more, I came to realize that her defeat at the hands of the Romans and the fact that she was a woman shaped all the myths we hold about her. Far from a scheming, sex-mad seductress, she had only two known relationships with men, and was a great intellectual scholar and able leader. This book taught me a lot more that I didn't know about a truly fascinating woman.Get more detail about Cleopatra: A Biography (Women in Antiquity).
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