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Cleopatra By Stoney Schiff Summary

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Cleopatra By: Stacy Schiff, is a biography of the famous Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra, who single-handedly shaped and dramatically impacted both the Egyptian and Roman Empires of her time. However, Stacy Schiff’s book is not merely a biography that simply tells the life and achievements of Cleopatra, rather her thesis, or main point, in writing the book is to show the reader how little is factually known about Cleopatra. Furthermore, of what is known, the historical reports are very subjective, over exemplified, contradictory and thereby inaccurate. Additionally, according to Schiff, Cleopatra today is remembered for the wrong reasons, primarily her seduction of the two Roman Emperors of the time, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, which severely
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