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Summary:

The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All we have to tell her story are words written by others.0 What has it meant for our understanding of Cleopatra to have had her story told by writers who had a political agenda, authors who distrusted her motives, and historians who believed she was a liar? Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film. She challenges the common narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offers a new interpretation of Cleopatra's history from the lens of our own era.

Author/Creator:

Prose, Francine, 1947- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Cleopatra: her history, her myth [by Prose, F.]

Related Series:

Ancient lives

Subjects:

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.

Queens — Egypt — Biography

Feminist theory

Egypt — Kings and rulers — Biography

Egypt — History — 332-30 B.C.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DT92.7 .P76 2022eb

ISBNs:

9780300259384 (electronic bk.)
0300259387 (electronic bk.)
9780300256673 [Invalid]
0300256671 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1347027844

Other Control Numbers:

3401955 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp303172492