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Cleopatra: A Life

byStacy Schiff

Cleopatra examines a Life, combining Stacy Schiff's clear narrative with the perspective of a biographical portrait. Moving between close detail and context, the book explains the forces surrounding its subject and connects them to the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Attention to evidence keeps the discussion anchored while allowing disagreement, uncertainty, and unintended consequences to remain visible. Cleopatra leaves readers with key context and a clear view of the human stakes involved. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Back Bay Books

Publication date

September, 2011

Format

Print edition

Pages

450

ISBN

9780316001946