Ashton Cleopatra and Egypt

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0151-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Ancient Lives

This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws onliterary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint anintimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt.
* * Deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complexhistorical figure behind the myth
* * Examines Greek, Roman, and Egyptian representations ofCleopatra
* * Considers how she was viewed by her contemporaries and how shepresented herself
* * Incorporates the author's recent field work at a templeof Cleopatra in Alexandria
* * Beautifully illustrated with over 40 images

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashton, Sally-Ann

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations.
Author's Foreword.
Aknowledgements.
1 Cleopatra - Black and beautiful?.
2 Sources.
3 King's daughter, King's sister, Great royalwife.
4 Ruler and regent, pharaoh.
5 Cleopatra's capital and court.
6 Cleopatra as a Goddess.
7 Cleopatra, Mark Antony and the East.
8 Death of a queen rebirth of a goddess.
9 The legacy of Cleopatra.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sally-Ann Ashton studied at King's College London and is currently Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on many aspects of later periods of Egyptian history and culture, including Ptolemaic royal sculpture from Egypt, the last queens of Egypt, Petrie's Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis and Roman Egyptomania. She has worked on excavations in Greece, Libya, and Egypt and is currently involved in projects at Karnak temple.