This Author has done her home work and Men… this is a great read with lots of detailed history. Very timely with the Matriarch now coming into balance and… whether we like it or not, the real possibility of a female leader coming here soon.

Among the most famous women to have ever lived, Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for twenty-two years. A goddess as a child, a queen at eighteen, a celebrity soon thereafter. At the height of her power she controlled virtually the entire eastern Mediterranean coast. She died at thirty-nine, a generation before the birth of Christ.

A capable, clear eyed sovereign, a commanding woman versed in politics, diplomacy, and governance; fluent in nine languages; silver tongued and charismatic. She knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, controll a currency and alleviate a famine.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of woman and power.

Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She had children by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, two of the most powerful Romans of the day. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.

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