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Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.
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Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra: A Life
...but from an early age she would have known literarily what she at twenty-one discovered empirically: there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.
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Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra: A Life
History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.
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Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra: A Life
Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.
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Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra: A Life
She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the last time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one.
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