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Cleopatra: A Life
By Stacy Schiff
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that strips away two thousand years of Roman propaganda to reconstruct the actual Macedonian queen of Egypt. Stacy Schiff is unusually careful about flagging where the sources let her down, which makes this the strongest accessible biography of Cleopatra published in the modern era.
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400 pages📅 2010
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that strips away two thousand years of Roman propaganda to reconstruct the actual Macedonian queen of Egypt. Stacy Schiff is unusually careful about flagging where the sources let her down, which makes this the strongest accessible biography of Cleopatra published in the modern era.
In English
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