Please note the
pages on this book have been produced with bevelled or rough edge
to create an old style look. The publisher has deliberately chosen
to produce the book this way. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the
world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered
with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and
sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist
and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than
forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was
married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war
against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the
second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well;
incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears
to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have
been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans
of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child
with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protege.
Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the
relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most
influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to
forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends.
Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous
long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history
for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her
mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to
her name. Along the way Cleopatra''s supple personality and the
drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to
the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from
fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new
world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff ''s is a
luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling
life.
關於作者：
Stacy Schiff is the
author of Véra Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great
Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner
of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award.
Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Scholars
and Writers at the New York Public Library. The recipient of an
Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, she lives in New York City.
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