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Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff brings to life one of the most intriguing women in the history of the world.

One of the New York Times' '10 Best Books of 2010'

Her palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue.

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Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.

She was married twice, each time to a brother.

She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men.

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They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, two of the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a son with Cae