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Mary Beard: No Asp for Zenobia, 20 March 2003
Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth
by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton.
Cornell, 104 pp., £14.95, April 2002,0 8014 3867 5 Show More
by Michel Chauveau, translated by David Lorton.
Cornell, 104 pp., £14.95, April 2002,
The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations
by Maria Wyke.
Oxford, 452 pp., £40, March 2002,9780198150756 Show More
by Maria Wyke.
Oxford, 452 pp., £40, March 2002,
“... usual story has, however, been doubted by a number of more cynical modern historians, among them Michel Chauveau, whose – necessarily – slim volume attempts to ‘exorcise the myth’ and present the ‘facts’ of Cleopatra’s life and death. Even to fill just eighty pages of main text, those ‘facts’ have to be rather generously defined. The ... ”
