Stacy Schiff: Cleopatra [2011] paperback DIY 'Full of brilliant characters

'Full of brilliant characters

this is the story behind one of the best-known faces in the world of beauty

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Stacy Schiff: Cleopatra [2011] paperback DIY 'Full of brilliant charactersCleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of