Cleopatra: a biography
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Diana E. E. Roller's biography of Cleopatra delivers a scholarly, well-researched account of the queen's life set within the political and cultural world of Hellenistic Egypt.
Roller examines ancient sources critically, reconstructing Cleopatra's political agency and the workings of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
The book situates Cleopatra in Alexandria's cosmopolitan context and explores her interactions with Rome.
It balances attention to both Cleopatra's image in later tradition and what can reasonably be recovered about her actual rule.
Roller's work is respected for its careful methodology and readable synthesis of complex scholarship.
Roller examines ancient sources critically, reconstructing Cleopatra's political agency and the workings of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
The book situates Cleopatra in Alexandria's cosmopolitan context and explores her interactions with Rome.
It balances attention to both Cleopatra's image in later tradition and what can reasonably be recovered about her actual rule.
Roller's work is respected for its careful methodology and readable synthesis of complex scholarship.
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