PDF Encyclopedia of Islam in the United States [2 volumes] by From Greenwood in History

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Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else; Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice; each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and poisoned the second; incest and assassination were family specialties. She had children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony; two of the most prominent Romans of the day. With Antony she would attempt to forge a new empire; in an alliance that spelled both their ends. Famous long before she was notorious; Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources; Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.