Cleopatra's Egypt
Author | : Robert Steven Bianchi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Steven Bianchi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sally-Ann Ashton |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2009-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1444301519 |
This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint an intimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt. Deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complex historical figure behind the myth Examines Greek, Roman, and Egyptian representations of Cleopatra Considers how she was viewed by her contemporaries and how she presented herself Incorporates the author’s recent field work at a temple of Cleopatra in Alexandria Beautifully illustrated with over 40 images
Author | : Joyce Tyldesley |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-05-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1847650449 |
She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever (her famous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony were as much to do with politics as the heart), she steered her kingdom through impossibly taxing internal problems and railed against greedy Roman imperialism. Stripping away preconceptions as old as her Roman enemies, Joyce Tyldesley uses all her skills as an Egyptologist to give us this magnificent biography.
Author | : Michel Chauveau |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801485763 |
Few other civilizations rival Ancient Egypt in its power to capture the modern imagination, and Cleopatra VII, monarch at the end of the Ptolemaic period, has always been preeminent among its cast of characters. Coming to power just before the unstable state was about to be absorbed into an autocratic empire, Cleopatra oversaw not only Egypt's progress as an influential regional power but also the fragile peace of its ethnically mixed population.Michel Chauveau looks at many facets of life under this queen and her dynasty, drawing on such sources as firsthand accounts, numismatics, and Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. His use of such sources helps to free the narrative of dependence on later (and usually hostile) Greek and Roman historians. By taking up such subjects as funeral customs, language and writing, social class structure, religion, and administration, he affords the reader an unprecedented and comprehensive picture of Greek and Egyptian life in both the cities and the countryside.Originally published in French in 1997, Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra fulfills a long-standing need for an accessible introduction to the social, economic, religious, military, and cultural history of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Author | : Polly Schoyer Brooks |
Publisher | : Harpercollins Childrens Books |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780060236076 |
A chronicle of the life of one of history's most famous women shows how Cleopatra, distantly related to Alexander the Great and worshipped as a goddess in Egypt, became a major figure in the ancient struggle for power in the Mediterranean
Author | : Elizabeth Payne |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0307813991 |
For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt explains how archaeologists have pieced together their discoveries to slowly reveal the history of Egypt’s people, its pharaohs, and its golden days.
Author | : Joyce Tyldesley |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An illustrated study of the queens of ancient Egypt ranges from the early dynastic period to the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, offering a biographical portrait of each queen, along with information on the era in which she lived and her influence on Egyptian history.
Author | : Kasia Szpakowska |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2007-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405118563 |
Using the life of a young girl and her family as a model, this book recreates the daily life of the middle-class residents of the ancient town of Lahun during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom period. This perfect snapshot in time has been painstakingly recreated using recently published textual data and archaeological findings. Provides an illuminating and engaging re-construction of what daily life was like in ancient Egypt Describes the main issues of everyday life in the town - from education, work, and food preparation to religious rituals, healing techniques, marriages, births, and deaths Authentically recreated through the use of recently published textual data and archaeological findings directly from the settlement of Lahun and other sites Includes photographs and illustrations of actual artifacts from the settlement of Lahun
Author | : Richard Worth |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766025592 |
Charming, intelligent, and the ruler of Egypt at the age of eighteen, these qualities and more have contributed to Cleopatra's reign as a fascinating historical figure. Often caught between the wishes of her people and her need to keep Rome as an ally, she struggled to keep Egypt powerful and independent. Author Richard Worth combs the pages of history to offer insight into Cleopatra's life. From the civil war with her brother Ptolemy XIV and her romances with two of Rome's strongest leaders to the disastrous Battle of Actium and Cleopatra's last, desperate decision as queen, this book reveals the saga of this great ruler.
Author | : Susan Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Fabled for her sexual allure and cunning intelligence, Cleopatra VII of Egypt has fascinated generations of admirers and detractors since her tumultuous life ended in suicide on Octavians' capture of Egypt in 30 BC. The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who had ruled Egypt as Hellenistic Greek kings and Egyptian pharaohs for 300 years, Cleopatra created her own mythology, becoming an icon in her own lifetime and even more so after her death. This book explores the ways in which she was depicted in antiquity, within the context of the iconography of contemporary coinage, statues and other images of Egyptian, Greek and Roman rulers, and then examines the image of Cleopatra from the Renaissance to modern times, as seen in plays, opera, painting, ceramics and even jewellery. Exciting new research has revealed seven Egyptian-style statues believed to represent Cleopatra, and two portraits probably commissioned in Rome while she lived there with Julius Caesar.