![]() As a result, her actions are constantly reinterpreted-and misinterpreted-by others. In the process, she paints a portrait of a woman whose accomplishments are varied and extraordinary, and who should be known not as a scandalous Halloween costume but as a pioneering early career woman whose story has been cruelly usurped over the years.Ĭleopatra’s biography is murky: she left behind almost no written records, and most of our sources come from men who, Schiff suggests, resented her for her wealth, felt threatened by her power, and didn’t know how to handle her independence. Schiff does a brilliant job bringing Cleopatra to life, sifting through vast numbers of historical sources to show which are valid and which are doused in propaganda. ![]() Stacy Schiff-bestselling author of THE WITCHES-won the Pulitzer Prize for her book CLEOPATRA: A LIFE, which takes on the challenge of telling Cleopatra’s true story while at the same time illustrating how unfair it is that her narrative has always been written by other people. Yet it still reads as part drama, part farce, part tragedy, part thriller, and part romance, bringing new meaning to the old adage, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” ![]() CLEOPATRA: A LIFE, like all good nonfiction, sticks to the facts and avoids exaggeration. ![]()
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