The Defeat of Death: A Reading of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's "Cleopatra"

by Afroditi -maria Panaghis (Author), Afroditi-Maria Panaghis (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2013

  $86.27

  The book reads Sir Henry Rider Haggard's historical romance Cleopatra (1889). It demonstrates the concept of coincidentia oppositorum as the basic principle of life, and shows Cleopatra defeating death. The writer underscores the significance of simulating ancient Egypt, submerging in the unconscious, and espousing the spiritual world.