Ebers, an Egyptologist, sets out to show that the love between Antony and Cleopatra was real. His novel follows the queen in her last years in Alexandria, among scholars, courtiers and schemers, as the fate of her country and children hangs on the war with Octavian and her bond with the Roman general.
A richly researched historical novel of Ptolemaic Egypt, in Mary J. Safford’s translation. Download the free EPUB.