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The Romans regarded her as "fatale monstrum”—a fatal omen.
Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world.
Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was
Cleopatra, really? We almost feel that we know Cleopatra, but our
distorted image of a self-destructive beauty does no justice to
Cleopatra’s true genius. In Cleopatra, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley
offers an unexpectedly vivid portrait of a skillful Egyptian ruler.
Stripping away our preconceptions, many of them as old as Egypt’s
Roman conquerors, Cleopatra is a magnificent biography of a most
extraordinary queen.
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Joyce Tyldesley holds a first class honors degree in
archaeology from Liverpool University, and a doctorate from Oxford
University. She is currently Honorary Research Fellow at Liverpool
University, and a tutor at Manchester University. She lives in
Bolton, England.
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