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Article: Cleopatra and Rome.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- March 22, 2006
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Cleopatra and Rome, by Diana E. E. Kleiner. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. 340 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).
Sovereign, siren, and spectacle during her brief lifetime (69-30 B.C.), Cleopatra's relationships to Roman leaders and to Rome itself are seductively and intelligently examined in Diana E. E. Kleiner's beautifully illustrated book. The central thesis, that Cleopatra of Egypt--the epitome of a highly intelligent, willful female ruler of Macedonian lineage, through her own power as a Ptolemy and her relationships with Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian/Augustus--had a major impact on the artistic and ...