Cleopatra. Life. More than biography. Shiff S.

The author of the biographies and laureate of the Pulitzer Prize Steisi Schiff created a bright portrait of the most ambiguous woman in world history - Cleopatra, the last ruler of Egypt. Her palace sparkled with precious stones and gold and was famous for political games. Cleopatra was associated with close relations with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, but her personality was too tightly curtained by a romantic flaler. The Egyptian queen was not in the shadow of these most outstanding Romans of that time - the mistress of almost the entire eastern Mediterranean, the last of the great kingdoms in the history of Egypt, was a strong ruler, capable of creating his own fleet, suppressing the uprising, holding a cash course, and feeding hungry. She spoke freely in nine languages ​​and was an insightful strategist and skilled negotiator. Her image was recreated by William Shakespeare and Bernard Show, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and many of our contemporaries judge the appearance and character of the queen by her cinematic “double” - brilliant Elizabeth Taylor. However, far from all the details of the dramatic life of Cleopatra, not all the facets of its complex nature can be reflected by artistic means, moreover, a lot of information has been lost or mythologized. Professionally working with classic sources, Steisi Schiff Virtuoso separates the facts from fiction in order to show the true Cleopatra to the world. The book, rich in information and an epic, translated into 30 languages, is a deep and carefully worked out reconstruction of the life of this outstanding personality, and the tab with color illustrations makes its image even more visible.

“Restore the identity of Cleopaters means - it means that it means Take care of the few facts that have come down to us... Recent research shed a completely new light on the history of women of antiquity and Hellenistic Egypt. ”