Cleopatra: Queen, Lover, Legend

Cleopatra: Queen, Lover, Legend

by Lucy Hughes - Hallett (Author)

Synopsis

'This is a gripping book...A fascinating account of the way in which succeeding generations have seen Cleopatra; as virtuous suicide, inefficient housewife, exuberant lover, professional courtesan, scheming manipulator, femme fatale, incarnation of Isis and bimbo' - Economist

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 03 Aug 2006

ISBN 10: 1844139379
ISBN 13: 9781844139378
Book Overview: This book gives an account of the way in which different generations have viewed Cleopatra.

Media Reviews
Her book has as much in common with Antonia Fraser's Boadicea... It comes, I feel, still closer to Marina's Warner's Monuments and Maidens in its mood and in its spirit, in its careful relation of the visual and verbal. It is a book which builds up pictures in the mind -- Fiona MacCarthy * Observer *
Lucy Hughes-Hallett... throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy -- Joan Smith * New Statesman *
Richly entertaining and thought-provoking... a fascinating and humorous work... Every Antony should read it * Times Literary Supplement *
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's brilliant and discursive study of Cleopatra -- Antonia Fraser * Sunday Times *
The world's most famous beauty, for whom the world was well lost, turns out to have been less of a siren, more of a Caesar, in Lucy Hughes-Hallett's entertaining and thoughtful study -- Marina Warner * Independent on Sunday *
Author Bio
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a cultural historian and critic. She is the author of this book and of Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen, and is currently at work on a book on Gabriele d'Annunzio and the origins of fascism. She reviews regularly for the Sunday Times Books Section.