by Michael Grant · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781898799696
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«Cleopatra» is the biography of the Queen of Egypt written by Michael Grant, published by Orion Publishing Group in paperback (301 pages, in English).
Michael Grant dismantles the frivolous image of Cleopatra and presents her as a cultured and calculating ruler, a polyglot and the first of her dynasty to learn Egyptian. He analyses how her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony sought to restore Egypt's power, until her defeat by Octavian.
Work originally published in 1972 under the title «Cleopatra: A Biography».
For readers of ancient history and biographies, with a special interest in Ptolemaic Egypt and the end of the Roman Republic.
Michael Grant was an English classicist, Professor of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work. Having studied and held a number of academic posts in the United Kingdom and the Middle East, he retired early to write full-time. He once described himself as "one of the very few freelancers in the field of ancient history: a rare phenomenon". As a populariser, his hallmarks were his prolific output and his unwillingness to oversimplify or talk down to his readership. He published over 70 works.
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