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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michelle LovricPublisher: British Museum Press Imprint: British Museum Press Dimensions: Width: 16.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 10.20cm Weight: 0.200kg ISBN: 9780714119373ISBN 10: 0714119377 Pages: 96 Publication Date: 01 June 2001 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 1. Cleopatra's Life 2. Cleopatra's Blood 3. Cleopatra's Eyes 4. Cleopatra's Nose 5. Cleopatra's Mouth 6. Cleopatra's Libido 7. Cleopatra's Mind 8. Cleopatra's Wiles 9. Cleopatra's Luxury 10. Cleopatra on the Stage and Screen 11. Cleopatra's Fatal BeautyReviews'The most complete woman ever to have existed, the most womanly woman and the most queenly queen, a person to be wondered at, to whom the poets have been able to add nothing, and whom dreamers always find at the end of their dreams' Theophile Gautier, 1845; 'Though she pretended to tear her hair in grief, it was not sufficiently disarranged to lose its attraction' Lucan, Pharsalia, book 10; 'Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the face of the world would have changed' Blaise Pascal, Pensees, p.50; 'We have kissed away Kingdoms and provinces' William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. III viii, 17; 'I imagine Cleopatra very cosmopolitan. She lived in Rome like an American in Paris' Anatole France, 1914 Author InformationMichelle Lovric is the author/compiler of a number of books, including the New York Times bestseller Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion, The Sweetness of Honey and the Sting of Bees: Words of Love from the Ancient Mediterranean and How to Insult, Abuse and Insinuate in Classical Latin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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