Ebook {Epub PDF} The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George

All the women in our line were named Cleopatra, Berenice, or Arsinoe. Those names, too, went all the way back to Macedonia, where our family had its origins. Thus my two older sisters received the names of Cleopatra (yes, there were two of us) and Berenice, and my younger sister the name of Arsinoe. Younger sister there were others after me. Told in Cleopatra's own voice, The Memoirs of Cleopatra is a mesmerizing tale of ambition, passion, and betrayal in the ancient Egyptian world, which begins when the twenty-year-old queen seeks out the most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, and does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death rather Cited by: 1. 9. Octavian declared war on Cleopatra, rather than Antony, ridiculing her foreign ways and declaring, “We must allow no woman to make herself the equal of a man.”. In our day, many women applaud her for “making herself equal to a man,” and her exoticism appeals to us.

Praise for Margaret George. The Memoirs of Cleopatra. "Not merely a great lover, Cleopatra emerges here as a compassionate ruler and political genius. It is a tribute to George's artistry that the strings are hidden, that not once will readers doubt that the Queen of Egypt is telling the tale. In nearly a thousand pages, [George] creates. Find The Memoirs Of Cleopatra by George, Margaret at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. More historical tonnage by the author of Mary Queen of Scots and the Isles (), etc. Again, George highlights the dangerous vagaries of love and lust in the career of one born to the purple. Here, politics and empire-building by the fabled Egyptian queen (69 B.C B.C.) simmer on the back burner while Cleopatra is engulfed by two mighty lovers: Julius Caesar and Marc Antony.

THE MEMOIRS OF CLEOPATRA. by Margaret George ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 8, More historical tonnage by the author of Mary Queen of Scots and the Isles (), etc. Again, George highlights the dangerous vagaries of love and lust in the career of one born to the purple. About the Book. The world-renowned author of The Autobiography of Henry VII and Mary Queen of Scotland And the Isles turns from Renaissance Britain to ancient Egypt and the story of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile. Told in the first person — from the young queen’s earliest memories of her father’s tenuous rule to her own reign over one of the most glittering kingdoms in the world–this is a mesmerizing saga of ambition and power. It was right before the dark curtain of reality shows snuffed out such fare. This one was to be titled simply “Cleopatra” and was to be 4 hours long, shown in the ratings sweep week in May. Timothy Dalton would play Caesar, Billy Zane Marc Antony, and Leonor Varela, Cleopatra. Background information can be found on wikipedia.