'This is a gripping book... A fascinating account of the way in which succeeding generations have seen Cleopatra; as virtuous suicide, inefficient housewife, exuberant lover, professional courtesan, scheming manipulator, femme fatale, incarnation of Isis and bimbo' - Economist
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Her book has as much in common with Antonia Fraser's Boadicea... It comes, I feel, still closer to Marina's Warner's Monuments and Maidens in its mood and in its spirit, in its careful relation of the visual and verbal. It is a book which builds up pictures in the mind -- Fiona MacCarthy * Observer * Lucy Hughes-Hallett... throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy -- Joan Smith * New Statesman * Richly entertaining and thought-provoking... a fascinating and humorous work... Every Antony should read it * Times Literary Supplement * Lucy Hughes-Hallett's brilliant and discursive study of Cleopatra -- Antonia Fraser * Sunday Times * The world's most famous beauty, for whom the world was well lost, turns out to have been less of a siren, more of a Caesar, in Lucy Hughes-Hallett's entertaining and thoughtful study -- Marina Warner * Independent on Sunday *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
ISBN-13
978-1-4481-3950-7 (9781448139507)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a cultural historian and critic. She is the author of this book and of Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen, and is currently at work on a book on Gabriele d'Annunzio and the origins of fascism. She reviews regularly for the Sunday Times Books Section.
