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  1. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century.
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  2. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    To one visitor Alexandrian life was "just one continuous revel, not a sweet or gentle revel either, but savage and harsh, a revel of dancers, whistlers, and murderers all combined.
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  3. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    {The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra. It has been perhaps best defined as a Greek era in which the Greeks played no role.}"
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  4. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    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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  5. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    A good-sized Ptolemaic vessel could carry three hundred tons of wheat down the river. At least two such ships made the trip daily-with wheat, barley, lentils-to feed Alexandria alone.
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  6. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    There was good reason why Cleopatra's subjects viewed time as a coil of endless repetitions.
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    diadem, Cleopatra took part throughout the trip in religious
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  8. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs?
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  9. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy."
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  10. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    But the standouts in the generations immediately preceding Cleopatra's were-for vision, ambition, intellect-universally female.
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  11. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    Caesar's civic reforms were promising, but how and when would he put the Republic back together again? Over years of war it had been turned upside down, the constitution trampled, appointments made on whim and against the law. Caesar took few steps toward restoring traditional rights and regulations. Meanwhile his powers expanded. He took charge of most elections and decided most court cases. He spent a great deal of time settling scores, rewarding supporters, auctioning off his opponents' properties. The Senate appeared increasingly irrelevant. Some groused that they lived in a monarchy masquerading as a republic. There were three possibilities for the future, predicted an exasperated Cicero, "endless armed conflict, eventual revival after a peace, and complete annihilation.
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  12. Stacy Schiff _ Cleopatra

    So it was that when a fiery wisp of a girl presented herself before an adroit, much older man of the world, credit for the seduction fell to her.
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