The Reign of Cleopatra

by Stanley Mayer Burstein

Book Overview

Ambitious, intelligent, and desired by men and emperors, Cleopatra VII came to power at a time when Roman and Egyptian interests increasingly tended to concern the same object: the Egyptian Empire itself. Cleopatra lived her whole life at the center of this complex and persistent power struggle, and her death simultaneously heralded the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the loss of Egyptian political independence, and the beginning of Caesar Augustus's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313325278
• ISBN13: 9780313325274
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"