Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions by Lucy Hughes-Hallett #joyce ISBN: 9781399622318

ISBN: 9781399622318

in this new Story Orchestra format

ISBN: 9780571403516

receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer's

each accompanied by a beautiful photograph and an illustration

Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions by Lucy Hughes-Hallett #joyce ISBN: 9781399622318In the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that fits the prejudices, anxieties and yearnings of the age that produced it. To Chaucer she was the model of a good wife, while to Cecil B. DeMille she was the wickedest woman in history. In this revised edition of Lucy Hughes Halletts award winning cultural history, the real Cleopatra one of the most powerful