Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Name: Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Brand: Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury

\""Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions\"" by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, published in 1990 in Great Britain in hardback with dustjacket, 338pp, ISBN 0747500932\nCondition Notes: Good+ condition clean & tidy copy with good condition dustjacket (the price has been scribbled out). There is the name of a previous owner on the top right corner of the FFEP (the front free endpaper - the first page in from the front cover - normally blank)\nSynopsis: Cleopatra, wrote Th\u00E9ophile Gautier in 1845, 'is a person to be wondered at...whom dreamers find always at the end of their dreams.' In this book, Lucy Hughes-Hallett describes and interprets those dreams. Even in her own lifetime, Cleopatra VII - the last queen of Egypt and Julius Caesar's mistress, Antony's partner, Rome's adversary - was twice over a fiction, being reinvented in the propaganda of her enemies as depraved, alien temptress and in her own self-glamorizing ceremonial as a goddess, a universal mother and a liberax