A Brief History of Cleopatra
Shakespeare said that age could not wither Cleopatra ‘nor custom stale her infinite variety’. And Shakespeare got his vision of this fascinating woman from the Roman writers Plutarch, Suetonius and Josephus. She was all things to all men and M J Trow’s forthcoming biography captures all her facets.
Cleopatra was Greek, descended from the generals of Alexander the Great. She was queen of Egypt, a civilization ancient, mystic and bizarre. And she lived in a world dominated by Rome, where men like Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony and Octavian strode the ancient world like colossi.
She used her seductive powers, her inner strength, her armies and her navies to make her mark in a world ruled by men. Cleopatra was Isis burning, a messianic heroine whose fame and fascination has lasted for two thousand years.
A Brief History of Cleopatra takes a look behind the smoke and mirrors that Cleopatra offers to the world. brings the legend up to date by considering how later generations viewed the queen. Shakespeare’s version is the one always quoted, but a number of films from the silent era to 2011 seek new ways to portray her. In a crowded market, she should be the greatest feminist icon ever; she came from a murderous family, was a gifted linguist and an intriguer easily able to hold her own in the helter-skelter politics of her age, yet she was also a daughter, a wife and a mother, the greatest multi-tasker of all time.
Book Author
M .J.Trow bills himself in many of his books as the only Welshman who cannot sing or play rugby. A military historian by training, graduating from King’s College, London and Cambridge, he has spent most years of his life at the chalk face of comprehensive schools which has given him the inspiration for his latest fictional detective Peter ‘Mad Max’ Maxwell.
The first detective series appeared in 1985 in the form of Inspector Lestrade, late of the Conan Doyle canon and after sixteen hilarious, bloody and intriguing outings, the world’s second greatest detective hung ...
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