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This comprehensive treatment of Cleopatra and the political and social world in which she lived will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Cleopatra or in ancient Egypt. Laying bare the \"injustice, the adverse partiality, of the attitude assumed by classical authors,\" the author offers the reader a new, more balanced look at the life of one of history's most important women. The book is divided into sections on Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and is supplemented by a number of maps and illustrations.

This comprehensive treatment of Cleopatra and the political and social world in which she lived will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Cleopatra or in ancient Egypt. Laying bare the \"injustice, the adverse partiality, of the attitude assumed by classical authors,\" the author offers the reader a new, more balanced look at the life of one of history's most important women. The book is divided into sections on Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and is supplemented by a number of maps and illustrations.

This comprehensive treatment of Cleopatra and the political and social world in which she lived will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Cleopatra or in ancient Egypt. Laying bare the \"injustice, the adverse partiality, of the attitude assumed by classical authors,\" the author offers the reader a new, more balanced look at the life of one of history's most important women. The book is divided into sections on Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and is supplemented by a number of maps and illustrations.

In October of BC 42 Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius at the battle of Philippi, Cassius being killed and Brutus committing suicide. Octavian, who was ill, took little part in the battle, and all the glory of the victory was given to Antony. From Tarsus Antony sent a certain officer named Dellius to Alexandria to invite Cleopatra to meet him in order to discuss the situation. The naturalness and ingenuousness of his character are surprisingly apparent in some of the anecdotes related by Plutarch. The glamour of the stage always appealed to Anton's nature, and he found, moreover, that the society of players and comedians held peculiar attractions for him. A certain Egyptian diviner made a profound impression upon him by foreshadowing the future events of his life and warning him against the power of Octavian.

The people of Rome now began to heap honours upon Ceasar, and the government which he had established did not fail to justify its existence by voting him to a position of irrevocable power. Ceasar's interests were world-wide, and the Government in Rome carried out his wishes in the manner in which an ignorant Board of Directors of a company with foreign interests follows the advice of its travelling manager. His intimacy with Cleopatra, moreover, had widened his outlook, and had very materially assisted him to become an arbiter of universal interests. During the last months of his life-namely, from his return to Rome in the early summer after the Spanish campaign to his assassination in the following March-Ceasar vigorously pressed forward his schemes in regard to the monarchy. For three years and more she had worked with Ceasar at the laying of the foundations of their throne.