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02848aam a2200457 i 4500 001 17F57106803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 220909s2022 ctub b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0300256671 020 $a 9780300256673 035 $a (OCoLC)1344293028 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d ILC $d SILO 043 $a f-ua--- 050 4 $a DT92.7 $b .P76 2022 082 04 $a 932/.021092 $2 23/eng/20221027 100 1 $a Prose, Francine, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Cleopatra : $b her history, her myth / $c Francine Prose. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press $c [2022] 300 $a 196 pages : $b map ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Ancient lives 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The life of Cleopatra. The Ptolemaic background ; A transfer of power ; Caesar and Cleopatra ; Mark Antony ; The final act begins ; The snake -- The afterlife of Cleopatra. The pearl ; Shakespeare's Cleopatra ; Cleopatra on film. 520 8 $a The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to see Caesar, Cleopatra is a figure shrouded in myth. Beyond the legends immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and others, there are no journals or letters written by Cleopatra herself. All we have to tell her story are words written by others.0 What has it meant for our understanding of Cleopatra to have had her story told by writers who had a political agenda, authors who distrusted her motives, and historians who believed she was a liar? Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film. She challenges the common narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offers a new interpretation of Cleopatra's history from the lens of our own era. 600 00 $a Cleopatra, $c Queen of Egypt, $d -30 B.C. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000453049473 600 07 $a Cleopatra, $c Queen of Egypt, $d -30 B.C. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01802070 650 0 $a Queens $z Egypt $v Biography. 650 0 $a Feminist theory. 651 0 $a Egypt $x Kings and rulers $v Biography. 651 0 $a Egypt $x History $y 332-30 B.C. 650 7 $a Feminist theory. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922816 650 7 $a Kings and rulers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00987694 650 7 $a Queens. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01085637 651 7 $a Egypt. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208755 648 7 $a 332-30 B.C. $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780300259384 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021919.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17F57106803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search