Cleopatra - A Biography - D Roller

Cleopatra - A Biography

Duane W. Roller

Oxford University Press, 2010

267 pages.

Contents

Introduction
1. Cleopatra’s Ancestry and Background
2. h e Ptolemaic Heritage and the Involvement with Rome
3. Cleopatra’s Youth and Education
4. Becoming Queen (51-47 b.c.)
5. Consolidating the Empire (47-40 b.c.)
6. h e Peak Years (40-34 b.c.)
7. h e Operation of the Kingdom
8. Scholarship and Culture at the Court of Cleopatra
9. Downfall (34-30 b.c.)
Epilogue

Appendices
1. outline of cleopatra’s life and career
2. genealogy of the later ptolemies
3. cleopatra’s mother
4. was cleopatra a roman citizen?
5. some ancient literary descriptions of cleopatra
6. the iconography of cleopatra vii

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