Cleopatra the Queen who challenged Rome and conquered eternity - Alberto Angela

More than a muse and greater than a myth, Cleopatra ruler, lover, diplomat, icon and her extraordinary world are brought to vivid life in this exciting portrait.

Who was Cleopatra? The last queen of Egypt lived less than forty years, and yet her legacy has spanned centuries. Shakespeare gave Cleopatra speech. Michelangelo gave Cleopatra a face. Elizabeth Taylor gave Cleopatra a voice.

But the question remains: just who was Cleopatra really? Even today, eternal muse Cleopatra has maintained a certain mystique everyone knows her name, but the queen as we know her is a creation built by the Romans and refined by the passage of time.

In Cleopatra, Alberto Angela travels back in time to uncover the woman who shaped the ancient world. At all of twenty years of age, Cleopatra is already one of the most notorious women in Rome: a wife, mother, and more im-portantly, queen of an ever-expanding empire.

As we follow young Cleopatra from sitting in her makeup chair, basking in the glamour of her gilded residence, to commanding her own fleet alongside her lover Mark Antony on the stormy Mediterranean, risking shipwreck for strategic victory, Angela makes even the minutiae of her life feel major and momentous.

Insightful, rigorously researched, and empa-thetically told, Cleopatra is an elegant reintroduction to a woman often reduced to her love affairs and sex appeal. Angela not only celebrates Cleopatra's beauty, charisma, and groundbreaking leadership, but ably reconstructs the epic ancient Egypt that made her who she is. Teeming with political intrigue, forbidden romance, and unforgettable battles,

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