00892nam a22001577a 4500 9780465009404 932.021092 Tyldesley, Joyce Cleopatra : Last Queen of Egypt Joyce Tyldesley New York Basic Books 2008 xiv,290 Pages 24x17 cm HB Include Index and Illustration Cleopatra is often portrayed as a woman ruled by emotion rather than reason; a queen hurtling towards inevitable self-destruction. But these tales of seduction, intrigue, and suicide by asp have obfuscated Cleopatra's true political genius. Stripping away our preconceptions, many of them as old as Egypt's Roman conquerors, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley offers a magnificent biography of a most extraordinary queen.--From publisher description. Queens Egypt Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C BK 26927 26927 0 0 0 932_021092000000000_T981C_2008 0 NFIC 26413 GPL GPL GEN 2017-04-05 CRV/GPLM/Readings-1 52.00 2 932.021092 T981C 2008 32700 2020-11-23 2020-11-16 2017-04-05 BK