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“By engaging in some overdue myth-busting, Stacy Schiff, in her extensively-researched biography of the most powerful woman of the Ancient world, gets us to take another look at The Queen of the Nile, Cleopatra. She argues where and how the historians likely got it all wrong, and talks about the making of the Cleopatra legend over the years by the likes of Cicero, Plutarch, Shakespeare, and Hollywood. The author has sometimes been accused of making too many assumptions, but I felt she worked very hard to make it clear whether she was working with documented facts, or was extrapolating based on the best historical sources available and how she came to her conclusions. And I found the abundance of cultural information presented about the wondrous cities of Alexandria and Rome in the times just before the birth of Christ to be very eye-opening and quite interesting. A very worthwhile read for me.”
bookkaddict wrote this review Wednesday, February 1, 2012.
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