Cleopatra a life by stacy schiff audiobook

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Cleopatra by stacy schiff, read by robin miles audiobook. Stacy schiffs cleopatra proves that she was a steely master of realpolitik at home, in war, and grand strategy, says. A life, winner of the penjacqueline bograd weld award for biography. Nov 02, 2010 cleopatra was born a goddess, became a queen at 18 and at the height of her power, ms. A life has 6 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. Its a stance that puts her at odds with 2,000 years worth of cleopatra chronicles, and shes aware of it. In her latest book, stacy schiff, the pulitzer prizewinning biographer of vera nabokov and benjamin franklin, plucks at this riddle and what she discoversabout cleopatra and the men who made her mythis astonishing. These book discussion questions are highly detailed and will ruin plot points, if you have not read the book. Schiff explores cleopatras life and experiences through known facts, literature, rumors, archaeology, and educated guesses based on what we know about other highstatus. Pulitzer prizewinning biographer stacy schiff brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world.