Cleopatra's Daughter
From the author of the national bestseller Nefertiti comes the incredible story of Queen Cleopatra and Marc Antony's orphaned children, who were taken to Rome to be raised as hostages in the palace of their father's greatest rival.
From the author of the national bestseller Nefertiti comes the incredible story of Queen Cleopatra and Marc Antony's orphaned children, who were taken to Rome to be raised as hostages in the palace of their father's greatest rival.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400144297 (1400144299)
Publish date: November 30th 2009
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I can honestly say that I wasn't expecting much from this book because I have read other books by Michelle Moran and haven't been the big...
A slight whiff of YA - probably because the narrator, Cleopatra's daughter Selene - is an adolescent - but an enjoyable read. Good historical accuracy, from what I could see. Octavian/Augustus is the cool political operator, Livia a stone-cold bitch, Julia a flighty but beautiful teenager, Marcel...
A wonderful piece of historical fiction -- 95% of the characters existed and their roles in the story are chronicled in history! Starts with bloodshed and has incidents involving bloodshed throughout -- after all this was ancient Rome, where the struggle to attain and then to keep power was as trans...
Michelle Moran can seem to do no wrong. I knew this was going to be an interesting book, but I had no idea I'd be reading about the teenaged Kleopatra Selene throughout the book. For some reason, I thought I would get a larger span of history, but instead Michelle Moran packs a lot of solid inform...
My biggest regret with Cleopatra's Daughter is that I waited so long to read it! I purchased this book back when it was popular among the book blogs and I even won a signed bookplate for it, so I can't begin to tell you why I didn't read it then. It simply got lost on my TBR bookshelf for a couple o...