Loved this - very readable, fascinating look at the life and times of Cleopatra, and by extension, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Augustus.Schiff explains the context for Cleopatra's life: the history of Cleopatra's family as rulers of Egypt, and what it meant to rule in Egypt, especially alongside...
I can’t remember the last time I read an honest to God biography, so either it’s been a really long time or whatever it was was so unmemorable that my brain has erased it from my memory banks. Last autobiography? Easy: Benjamin Franklin. And I read memoirs all the time. But biographies, man, they’re...
This book was fascinating, and reading it was an interesting experience.This is the first book I've read by Ms. Schiff, and it took me more than half of the book to come to appreciate her writing style. It seemed for much of the book as though she wasn't sure of who her audience was. Ms. Schiff us...
Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life is speculative, board-line revisionist history. It is unabashedly pro-Cleopatra. Schiff looks at all the historical accounts - many of which did not paint the Egyptian queen in a kindly light - and attempts to distort the image so that the portrait favors her subject...
This was probably one of my more challenging books I've read this year and it is one of my favorite history subjects. Schiff's style of writing was a little hard for me to get into but once I got past the first couple of chapters it was smooth sailing. I totally enjoyed Stacy Schiff's narrative of C...
Interesting look at Cleopatra and the power she wielded over the Roman leaders until she encountered Octavian (later renamed Augustus Caesar). The first two chapters could have been less boring, but after the background information about Cleopatra's ancestry, the book came alive and was hard to put...
Finished! It didn't take as long as I expected it to. I don't really know what to say about it. I don't think I'll listen to any more non-fiction audiobooks, they just don't work for me for some reason. Cleopatra I learned some things, like that Marc Anthony and Cleopatra had 3 children. I thought t...
Today I finished Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff. Schiff takes the reader inside the life of one the most fascinating women in ancient history. Going from her birth to the height of her power to her downfall and eventual death in 30 BCE, Schiff proved a look into a women who for the most part to the recor...
This is definitely not what I had hoped, this look into the life of the most well-known Egyptian queen in history. I did appreciate the historical context it gave me as I was simultaneously reading Nefertiti by Michelle Moran, but it did not make me feel as if I had learned about the fabled Cleopatr...
I consider myself an aficionado of Cleopatra and I devour all things regarding her and her life. I did not think it was possible to take the incredible story that is Cleopatra's life and make it dull. I was wrong. Schiff seemed to make it a point to make the story as boring and unemotional as possib...
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