Summary
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Full description
- Introduction: That Egyptian woman
- Dead men don't bite
- Cleopatra captures the old man by magic
- The golden age never was the present age
- Man is by nature a political creature
- We must often shift the sails when we wish to arrive in port
- An object of gossip for the whole world
- Illicit affairs and bastard children
- The wickedest woman in history.