Antony & Cleopatra The Doomed Love Affair That United Ancient Rome & Egypt
Heftet /
2009
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9781848683242
Published
2009-05-15
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Weight
358 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Thickness
16 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
189
Author
Biographical note
Patricia Southern is an acknowledged expert on the history of ancient Rome. While working full time as a librarian she studied for a BA degree in Ancient History with the external department of the University of London, and for an MPhil in Roman Frontier Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where she was Librarian of the Archaeology Department for many years. She has written many books on Roman history and contributed numerous articles on Roman history to the BBC History website and the academic Roman studies journal Britannia.
The tragic love affair of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is a staple of popular ancient history, immortalised by Shakespeare and Hollywood and mercilessly parodied in Carry on Cleo. In this dual biography Patricia Southern attempts to rescue both from the stereotypes, portraying their alliance as a mutually advantageous one, and both of them as capable political operators. Southern has a flair for this kind of narrative-history-with-argument, but she has already written extensively on both Antony and Cleopatra as well as Caesar, and for those who have read those earlier books there will be little new here.
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The tragic love affair of Marc Antony and Cleopatra is a staple of popular ancient history, immortalised by Shakespeare and Hollywood and mercilessly parodied in Carry on Cleo.
Product details
ISBN
9781848683242
Published
2009-05-15
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Weight
358 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Thickness
16 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
189
Author