For more than 2,000 years, plays, poems, movies, novels, and even operas have portrayed Cleopatra as an ambitious woman who used her beauty to seduce such powerful men as Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in a ruthless attempt to increase her own power and wealth. But is this the real Cleopatra or a figure of fiction, a character invented by male historians anxious to discredit an intelligent, competent woman who was the last great pharaoh of Egypt? This examination of the life of the ancient icon reveals Cleopatra to be a woman who used her intelligence, imagination, personality, and indomitable drive in a tragic attempt to restore Egypt to the greatness it had known under the pharaohs of old.
About the Author:
Ron Miller is an award-winning author of more than 40 nonfiction books for adults and younger readers
About the Author:
Sommer Browning is a poet and author whose award-winning work has been published in magazines and journals nationally. She is also an accomplished songwriter and cartoonist
Overview
For more than 2,000 years, plays, poems, movies, novels, and even operas have portrayed Cleopatra as an ambitious woman who used her beauty to seduce such powerful men as Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in a ruthless attempt to increase her own power and wealth. But is this the real Cleopatra or a figure of fiction, a character invented by male historians anxious to discredit an intelligent, competent woman who was the last great pharaoh of Egypt? This examination of the life of the ancient icon reveals Cleopatra ...