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Cleopatra and Antony : power, love, and politics in the ancient world / Diana Preston.

By: Preston, Diana, 1952-
Publisher: New York : Walker Pub. Co., 2009.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: viii, 333 p. : col. ill., map ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780802717382; 0802717381Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C | Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C | Couples -- Egypt -- Biography | Power (Social sciences) -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 | Love -- Political aspects -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 | Political culture -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500 | Egypt -- History -- 332-30 B.C. -- Biography | Egypt -- Politics and government -- 332-30 B.CDDC classification: 932/.0210922 | B LOC classification: DT92.7 | .P74 2009
Contents:
Keeping it in the family -- Siblings and Sibylline prophecies -- The race for glory -- "Odi et amo" -- Crossing the Rubicon -- Like a virgin -- The Alexandrian War -- "Veni, vidi, vici" -- "Slave of the times" -- The ides of March -- "Flight of the queen" -- Ruler of the East -- Mighty Aphrodite -- "Give it to Fulvia" -- Single mother -- "The awful calamity" -- Sun and Moon -- "Theatrical, overdone, and anti-Roman" -- "A woman of Egypt" -- The Battle of Actium -- After Actium -- Death on the Nile -- "Too many Caesars is not a good thing" -- Postscript: "This pair so famous" -- Appendix: Putting a face to a famous name -- Who was who in the first century BC.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Class number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item reservations
Book Book British Museum
Egypt and Sudan Shelves JA1A.PRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 54063000237704
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-318) and index.

Keeping it in the family -- Siblings and Sibylline prophecies -- The race for glory -- "Odi et amo" -- Crossing the Rubicon -- Like a virgin -- The Alexandrian War -- "Veni, vidi, vici" -- "Slave of the times" -- The ides of March -- "Flight of the queen" -- Ruler of the East -- Mighty Aphrodite -- "Give it to Fulvia" -- Single mother -- "The awful calamity" -- Sun and Moon -- "Theatrical, overdone, and anti-Roman" -- "A woman of Egypt" -- The Battle of Actium -- After Actium -- Death on the Nile -- "Too many Caesars is not a good thing" -- Postscript: "This pair so famous" -- Appendix: Putting a face to a famous name -- Who was who in the first century BC.

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