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Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean, and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar, and bore his only son. After his death, she took his greatest general, Mark Antony, as her lover and consort-and as her partner in a vast political enterprise. Together, they strove to unite Egypt and Rome under one throne. Throne of Isis shows us an extraordinary woman wielding the power to which she was born. Here is the Cleopatra who took the throne of Egypt and held it, despite Rome, for nearly thirty years. Here is the woman who spoke twelve languages, studied philosophy and the arts, and could debate with the greatest scholars of the age. Here is the woman who fell in love with a man she meant to use. And here is historical fiction at its best.… (meer)
Slow-moving novel of Antony and Cleopatra, told through the viewpoint of one of Cleopatra's priestesses. Grounded in historical reality, it still emphasizes the storied love affair, but is also wound through with the ponderous military and political gamesmanship so essential to the saga. ( )
A historical novel with fantastic elements chronicling the love affair between Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. I hesitate to characterise it as historical fantasy (book 2 in the series which I've owned for many years isn't), but the magical thread is there although discreet.
Dione, the Voice of Isis, a distant cousin of Cleopatra, forms part of her court. She is the mother of two sons; the elder lives with his father (who divorced Dione), and is rather strait-laced, the younger, who is very wild, lives with his mother. Starting after Cleopatra flees Rome following Julius Caesar's assassination, the story ends with Cleopatra's suicide.
It makes an interesting read; I read Gillian Bradshaw's take on Caesarion while back, but this book covers a longer time period.
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Now's the time to drink, now's the time to strike the earth with freedom's foot, now's the time to deck the couch of the gods with the banquets of the dancing priests, my friends.
Before this it was a forbidden thing to draw the Caecuban wine from our grandfathers' cellars, while the mad queen was preparing ruin and destruction for the Capitol and the empire
With her flock of freaks and perverts, frenzied enough to dream of victory, and drunk on sweet good fortune.
But the escape of scarce one ship from the flames moderated her rage, and Caesar brought her mind, mad drunk with the wine of Mareotis, under the power of true fear -
Driving her with ships in close pursuit as she flew from Italy, as the hawk pursues the tender dove or the swift hunter the hare in Haemonia's wintry fields - that he would lead in chains
That prodigy of fate. She, seeking a more noble death, did not in womanly wise fear the sword, nor seek hidden shores with her swift fleet.
And she, bold woman, looked even on her fallen palace with serene face, and bravely took in her hands the savage serpents, to drink deep their black poison.
Fiercely she resolved to die, loathing to be borne in cruel Liburnian galleys, loathing to be led, cast down from her throne, in a Roman's haughty triumph - no humble woman, she. - Horace, Odes Lxxxvii (trans. by Judith Tarr)
Opdracht
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To Bruce and Tracey for all the help, advice, and moral support, particularly the input on matters military
Eerste woorden
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Once, the chamber had been all gold.
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Laatste woorden
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Endings, as old Egypt knew, were seeds: seeds that sprouted and grew and blossomed, and wrought the world anew.
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean, and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar, and bore his only son. After his death, she took his greatest general, Mark Antony, as her lover and consort-and as her partner in a vast political enterprise. Together, they strove to unite Egypt and Rome under one throne. Throne of Isis shows us an extraordinary woman wielding the power to which she was born. Here is the Cleopatra who took the throne of Egypt and held it, despite Rome, for nearly thirty years. Here is the woman who spoke twelve languages, studied philosophy and the arts, and could debate with the greatest scholars of the age. Here is the woman who fell in love with a man she meant to use. And here is historical fiction at its best.
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