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Author:
Jane Draycott
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
May 23, 2023
As the only daughter of Roman Triumvir Marc Antony and Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, Cleopatra Selene was expected to uphold traditional feminine virtues; to marry well and bear sons; and to legitimize and strengthen her parents' rule. Yet with their parents' deaths by suicide, the princess and her brothers found themselves the inheritors of Egypt, a claim that placed them squarely in the warpath of the Roman emperor.
What The Reviewers Say
For all her hard work, Draycott, an archaeologist and historian, delivers something slightly different from a biography.
Jane Draycott has wrestled dauntlessly with the little evidence there is about this intriguing figure.
[A] deep work of historical excavation.
