EAN: 9781800244825

CLEOPATRAS DAUGHTER - JANE DRAYCOTT KARTONIERT ...

Cleopatra Selene  daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony  was the only member of
the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor
Augustus at the Battle of Actium.   Paraded as a prisoner in a Roman triumph  then brought up
in the household of Augustus' sister Octavia  she would marry a North African prince  becoming
co-ruler of the Roman client-state of Mauretania.   Jane Draycott recreates the life and times
of a woman who became a powerful ruler in her own right at a time when most women were
marginalised  and whose remarkable life shines new and revelatory light on Roman politics 
society and culture in the early years of the Empire.

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