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Cleopatra : a biography / Duane W. Roller.

By: Series: Women in antiquityPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.Description: xi, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780195365535
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 932/.021092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • DT92.7 .R65
Contents:
Cleopatra's ancestry and background -- The Ptolemaic heritage and the involvement with Rome -- Cleopatra's youth and education -- Becoming queen (51-47 BC) -- Consolidating the empire (47-40 BC) -- The peak years (40-34 BC) -- The operation of the kingdom -- Scholarship and culture at the court of Cleopatra -- Downfall (34-30 BC) -- Outline of Cleopatra's life and career -- Genealogy of the later Ptolemies -- Cleopatra's mother -- Was Cleopatra a Roman citizen? -- Some ancient literary descriptions of Cleopatra -- The iconography of Cleopatra VII.
Item type: Monographs
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cleopatra's ancestry and background -- The Ptolemaic heritage and the involvement with Rome -- Cleopatra's youth and education -- Becoming queen (51-47 BC) -- Consolidating the empire (47-40 BC) -- The peak years (40-34 BC) -- The operation of the kingdom -- Scholarship and culture at the court of Cleopatra -- Downfall (34-30 BC) -- Outline of Cleopatra's life and career -- Genealogy of the later Ptolemies -- Cleopatra's mother -- Was Cleopatra a Roman citizen? -- Some ancient literary descriptions of Cleopatra -- The iconography of Cleopatra VII.

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