The Cleopatras by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones poetry Angie Hobbs and Diarmaid MacCulloch

Angie Hobbs and Diarmaid MacCulloch

in this brilliantly told and evocative biography

acclaimed author of Hollow Places

Over the course of his career

The Cleopatras by Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones poetry Angie Hobbs and Diarmaid MacCullochA woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast or so the legend tells us. But the real life story of the historical Cleopatra VII is even more compelling. She was the last of seven Cleopatras who ruled Egypt before it was subsumed into the Roman Empire. The seven