Writing from years of work in Egypt, Weigall sets out to rescue Cleopatra from the Roman propaganda that made her a mere seductress. He reconstructs Ptolemaic Alexandria, her youth and the arrival of Caesar, the siege of the palace, the birth of Caesarion and her stay in Rome, then her long partnership with Mark Antony against Octavian.
A vivid, deliberately revisionist biography that reads like a story and still shapes popular views of Cleopatra. Download the free EPUB.