01458cam a2200289 4500 76336810 TxAuBib 20110308120000.0 110308s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010006988 9780316001922 $29.99 0316001929 $29.99 DLC DLC DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib Schiff, Stacy. Cleopatra : a life / by Stacy Schiff. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010. 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-347) and index. Introduction: That Egyptian woman -- Dead men don't bite -- Cleopatra captures the old man by magic -- The golden age never was the present age -- Man is by nature a political creature -- We must often shift the sails when we wish to arrive in port -- An object of gossip for the whole world -- Illicit affairs and bastard children -- The wickedest woman in history. Separates fact from fiction to reconstruct the life of the most influential woman of her era, revealing Cleopatra as a complex woman and shrewd monarch whose life and death reshaped the ancient world. 20110308. Cleopatra Queen of Egypt d. 30 B.C. Queens Egypt Biography. Egypt Kings and rulers Biography. Egypt History.