The Cleopatras

Resumen del libro

Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the legend tells us. But the real-life story of the historical Cleopatra VII is even more compelling. She was the last of seven Cleopatras who ruled Egypt before it was subsumed into the Roman Empire. The seven Cleopatras were the powerhouses of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the Macedonian family who ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great. Emulating the practices of the gods, the Cleopatras married their full-blood brothers and dominated the normally patriarchal world of politics and warfare. These extraordinary women keep a close grip on power in the wealthiest country of the ancient world.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Lloyd Llewellyn-Jonesx{0026}lt;/b es catedrático de Historia Antigua en la Universidad de Cardiff. Está especializado en la Persia aqueménida y la historia sociocultural griega, así como en la recepción de la Antigüedad en la cultura popular. Es editor jefe de Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia para la Edinburgh University Press y coeditor general de Screening Antiquity, también para EUP. Nacido en el sur de Gales y educado en Hull y Cardiff, Lloyd viaja con frecuencia por Oriente Próximo, especialmente Irán, a menudo dirigiendo viajes culturales, y ha actuado como asesor histórico para importantes películas de Hollywood y para documentales de televisión. Le encantan el teatro y la ópera.x{0026}lt;/p