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Cleopatra and Antony, power, love, and politics in the ancient world, Diana Preston

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Cleopatra and Antony, power, love, and politics in the ancient world, Diana Preston

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cleopatra and Antony

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

236340973

Responsibility statement

Diana Preston

Sub title

power, love, and politics in the ancient world

Table Of Contents

Keeping it in the family -- Siblings and Sibylline prophecies -- The race for glory -- "Odi et amo" -- Crossing the Rubicon -- Like a virgin -- The Alexandrian War -- "Veni, vidi, vici" -- "Slave of the times" -- The ides of March -- "Flight of the queen" -- Ruler of the East -- Mighty Aphrodite -- "Give it to Fulvia" -- Single mother -- "The awful calamity" -- Sun and Moon -- "Theatrical, overdone, and anti-Roman" -- "A woman of Egypt" -- The Battle of Actium -- After Actium -- Death on the Nile -- "Too many Caesars is not a good thing" -- Postscript: "This pair so famous" -- Appendix: Putting a face to a famous name -- Who was who in the first century BC

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